Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Moivayi (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Moivayi. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Moivayi is located in Maricopa County.
To see how the shape of Arizona's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Maricopa County: Gila, La Paz, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai & Yuma.
Below are the counties that are near Moivayi. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Moivayi:
- Maricopa County (The home county of Moivayi)
- The following are listed by their distance from Moivayi, with the one closest to Moivayi listed first.
- Kaka
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Kaka is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaka
- Bosque
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Bosque is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosque
- Gila Bend
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Gila Bend is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gila Bend
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,118 people
- Former name for Gila Bend:
- Gila
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gila Bend <1>
- Pima County
- The following are listed by their distance from Moivayi, with the one closest to Moivayi listed first.
- Ventana
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Ventana is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ventana
- Vaya Chin
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Vaya Chin is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vaya Chin
- Charco
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Charco is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charco
- Childs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Childs is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childs
- Wahak Hotrontk
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Wahak Hotrontk is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahak Hotrontk
- Why
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Anegam
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Anegam is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anegam
- Ajo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Mexican Town
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Mexican Town is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexican Town
- Schuchuli
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Schuchuli is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schuchuli
- Schuchuli has also been known as:
- Gunsight Ranch
- Gunsight Well
- Gunsight
- Sialatuck
- Santa Rosa
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Santa Rosa is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Rosa
- Pinal County
- The following are listed by their distance from Moivayi, with the one closest to Moivayi listed first.
- Chiapuk ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Chiapuk is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chiapuk
- Kohatk
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Kohatk is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kohatk
- North Komelik
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- North Komelik is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Komelik
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Moivayi, see our County-by-County Page for Moivayi.
Cemeteries Near Moivayi ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Moivayi.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Moivayi - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Moivayi covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Moivayi, with the one closest to Moivayi listed first.
- Stoa Pitk Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoa Pitk Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Stoa Pitk Cemetery is located 20 miles [32.2 km]<2> to the east of Ajo.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2310463 <3>
- Hickiwan Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Childs Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childs Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Childs Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the northwest of Childs.
- Ajo Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Gunsight Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunsight Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Gunsight Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the southeast of Why.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57028 <3>
- Santa Rosa Francisco Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Bosque Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Darby Wells Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Pioneer Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Stout Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>
While we didn't find Moivayi in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Moivayi.
- Bosque
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Bosque is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosque
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Moivayi. See our List of 1890's Communities around Moivayi.
Newspapers Published in Moivayi ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Moivayi.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Moivayi, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Moivayi.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Moivayi:
- Websites specific to Arizona
- Pages specific to Maricopa County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arizona
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Moivayi) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <4> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Moivayi, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |