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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 Oit Ihuk (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 Oit Ihuk. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 west contained birth and death records; the county to the south 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.

Oit Ihuk is located in Pima 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 Pima County: Cochise, Graham, Maricopa, Pinal, Santa Cruz & Yuma.

Below are the counties that are near Oit Ihuk. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Oit Ihuk:

  • Pima County     (The home county of Oit Ihuk)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oit Ihuk, with the one closest to Oit Ihuk listed first.
    • Vaya Chin
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Vaya Chin is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vaya Chin
    • Ventana
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Ventana is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ventana
    • Santa Rosa
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Santa Rosa is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Rosa
    • Wahak Hotrontk
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Wahak Hotrontk is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahak Hotrontk
    • Anegam
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Anegam is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anegam
    • Maish Vaya
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Maish Vaya is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maish Vaya
    • Ak Chin
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Ak Chin is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ak Chin
    • Narcho Santos
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Narcho Santos is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narcho Santos
    • Allen ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Allen is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen
    • Logan City ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Logan City is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan City
    • Pisinemo
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Charco
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Charco is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charco
    • Nolic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Nolic is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolic
  • Maricopa County
    • Kaka
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Kaka is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaka
  • Pinal County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oit Ihuk, with the one closest to Oit Ihuk listed first.
    • Chiapuk ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Chiapuk is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chiapuk
    • North Komelik
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • North Komelik is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Komelik
    • Kohatk
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Kohatk is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kohatk
    • Tat Momoli
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Tat Momoli is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tat Momoli

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Oit Ihuk, see our County-by-County Page for Oit Ihuk.

Cemeteries Near Oit Ihuk ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oit Ihuk.

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 Oit Ihuk - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Oit Ihuk covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Oit Ihuk, with the one closest to Oit Ihuk listed first.

  • Santa Rosa Francisco Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Tohono O'odham Reservation Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Ak Chin Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ak Chin Cemetery
    • The Ak Chin Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Akchin Cemetery
  • Hickiwan Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Sikul Himatk Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sikul Himatk Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sikul Himatk Cemetery is located 16 miles [25.7 km]<2> to the northwest of Sells.
  • Pisinimo Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Stoa Pitk Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Gu Vo Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gu Vo Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gu Vo Cemetery is located 19 miles [30.6 km]<2> to the northeast of Lukeville.
  • Gunsight Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • 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>
  • Nolic Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Sil Nakya Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)

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 Oit Ihuk in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Oit Ihuk.

  • Quijotoa ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Quijotoa is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quijotoa

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Oit Ihuk. See our List of 1890's Communities around Oit Ihuk.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Oit Ihuk:

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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oit Ihuk) 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 Oit Ihuk, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.