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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Planet. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Planet to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Planet, please Contact Us.

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 Planet (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 Planet. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Planet is historic, it would have been located within present day La Paz County.

To see how the shape of Arizona's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of La Paz County: Maricopa, Mohave, Yavapai, Yuma, Imperial (CA), Riverside (CA) & San Bernardino (CA).

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

  • La Paz County     (The home county of Planet)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Planet, with the one closest to Planet listed first.
    • Swansea ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Swansea have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swansea
      • Swansea is located in La Paz County
    • Parker Strip
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Parker Strip have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker Strip
      • Parker Strip is located in La Paz County
    • Cienega Springs
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cienega Springs
      • Cienega Springs is located in La Paz County
    • Bluewater
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bluewater have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluewater
      • Bluewater is located in La Paz County
    • Parker
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Alamo Crossing ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alamo Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo Crossing
      • Alamo Crossing is located in La Paz County
    • Bouse
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Utting
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utting
      • Utting is located in La Paz County
    • Poston
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Mohave County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Planet, with the one closest to Planet listed first.
    • Signal ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Signal have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Signal
      • Signal is located in Mohave County
    • Lake Havasu City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • San Bernardino County (CA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Planet, with the one closest to Planet listed first.
    • Parker Dam
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Bluewater
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bluewater have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluewater
      • Bluewater is located in San Bernardino County (CA)
    • Earp
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Havasu Palms
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havasu Palms
      • Havasu Palms is located in San Bernardino County (CA)
    • Big River
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Havasu Lake
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havasu Lake
      • Havasu Lake is located in San Bernardino County (CA)

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

Newspapers Published in Planet ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Planet.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Planet, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Planet.

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 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 Planet:

Cemeteries Near Planet ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Planet.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Lopez Ranch Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Lopez Ranch Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lopez Ranch Cemetery
  • Parker Community Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Colorado River Indian Tribe Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Bouse Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Signal Area Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Olea Ranch Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Olea Ranch Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • The Olea Ranch Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Campas Cemetery
    • Three Rivers Ranch Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Olea Ranch Cemetery
  • Lake Havasu Memorial Gardens
    (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.

While we didn't find Planet in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Planet.

  • Signal ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Signal have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Signal
    • Signal is located in Mohave County

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

The official website for La Paz County: www.co.la-paz.az.us/

The official website for State of Arizona: https://az.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Planet, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Planet) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Planet. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.2475, Longitude: -113.9649       In this case, the coordinates for Planet have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>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.




 

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