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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 Rio Rico Northeast (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 Rio Rico Northeast. 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 hospitals and 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.

Rio Rico Northeast is located in Santa Cruz 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 Santa Cruz County: Cochise & Pima.

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

  • Santa Cruz County     (The home county of Rio Rico Northeast)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rio Rico Northeast, with the one closest to Rio Rico Northeast listed first.
    • Otero ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Otero is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otero
    • Calabasas ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Calabasas is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calabasas
    • Rio Rico
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Rio Rico Northwest
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Rio Rico Northwest is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Rico Northwest
    • Tumacacori - Carmen
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Tumacacori - Carmen is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumacacori - Carmen
    • Tumacacori
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Rio Rico Southeast
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Rio Rico Southeast is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Rico Southeast
    • Rio Rico Southwest
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Rio Rico Southwest is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Rico Southwest
    • Salado ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Salado is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salado
    • Tubac
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Alto ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Alto is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto
    • Beyerville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Beyerville is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beyerville
  • Pima County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rio Rico Northeast, with the one closest to Rio Rico Northeast listed first.
    • Arivaca Junction
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Arivaca Junction is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arivaca Junction
    • Greaterville ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Greaterville is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greaterville
    • Arivaca
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Continental ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Continental is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Continental
    • Green Valley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Helvetia ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Helvetia is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helvetia
    • Sahuarita
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • East Sahuarita
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • East Sahuarita is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Sahuarita

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

Cemeteries Near Rio Rico Northeast ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rio Rico Northeast.

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 Rio Rico Northeast - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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 Rio Rico Northeast in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Rio Rico Northeast.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Rio Rico Northeast, with the one closest to Rio Rico Northeast listed first.

  • Calabasas ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Calabasas is located in Santa Cruz County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calabasas
  • Tubac
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Nogales
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Nogales is located in Santa Cruz County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nogales
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 20,107 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nogales <1>
  • Harshaw ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Harshaw is located in Santa Cruz County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harshaw
  • Oro Blanco ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Oro Blanco is located in Santa Cruz County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oro Blanco
  • Sonoita
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Greaterville ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Greaterville is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greaterville
  • Arivaca
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Lochiel ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Lochiel is located in Santa Cruz County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lochiel

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

Newspapers Published in Rio Rico Northeast ...

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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rio Rico Northeast.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rio Rico Northeast, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rio Rico Northeast.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Rio Rico Northeast:

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rio Rico Northeast) 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 Rio Rico Northeast, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.