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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 Sacate (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 Sacate. 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.

Sacate is located in Pinal 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 Pinal County: Gila, Graham, Maricopa & Pima.

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

  • Pinal County     (The home county of Sacate)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sacate, with the one closest to Sacate listed first.
    • Maricopa Wells ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Maricopa Wells is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maricopa Wells
    • Santa Cruz
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Santa Cruz is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Cruz
    • Maricopa
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Ak-Chin Village
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Ak-Chin Village is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ak-Chin Village
    • Ak Chin
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Ak Chin is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ak Chin
    • Casa Blanca
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Casa Blanca is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa Blanca
    • Bapchule
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Sweetwater
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Sweetwater is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
    • Santan
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Santan is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santan
    • Stotonic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Stotonic is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stotonic
      • Stotonic has also been known as:
      • Stetonic
      • Stotonik
    • Sacaton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Stanfield
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Maricopa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sacate, with the one closest to Sacate listed first.
    • Gila Crossing
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Gila Crossing is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gila Crossing
    • Komatke
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Komatke is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Komatke
    • Sun Lakes
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Ahwatukee
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Ahwatukee is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ahwatukee
    • Laveen Village
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Corona Village
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Corona Village is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corona Village
    • Kyrene
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Kyrene is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyrene
    • Co-op Village
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Co-op Village is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Co-op Village
    • Mobile
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Mobile is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mobile
    • Guadalupe
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Chandler
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Maricopa Village
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Maricopa Village is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maricopa Village

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

Cemeteries Near Sacate ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sacate.

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 Sacate - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Ak Chin Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • West Casa Blanca Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Casa Blanca Cemetery
    • The West Casa Blanca Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cowboy Cemetery
  • Bapchule Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Co-Op Village Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Goodyear - Ocotillo Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Sweetwater Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Valley of the Sun Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Guadalupe Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Resthaven Park East Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Resthaven Park East Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Resthaven Park East Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Phoenix.
    • The Resthaven Park East Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Resthaven / Carr - Tenney Memorial Gardens
    • Resthaven Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57097 <2>
  • Stotonic Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Tempe Double Butte Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Cementerio Lindo Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (34 more) ...

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.<3>

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

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

  • Heaton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Heaton is located in Pinal County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
  • Maricopa
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Kyrene
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Kyrene is located in Maricopa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyrene
  • Sweetwater
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Sweetwater is located in Pinal County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
  • Tempe
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Tempe is located in Maricopa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tempe
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 200,402 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tempe <1>
  • Phoenix
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Phoenix is located in Maricopa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phoenix
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,708,127 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Phoenix <1>
  • Sacaton
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Estrella
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Estrella is located in Maricopa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estrella
  • Mesa
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Mesa is located in Maricopa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 528,159 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mesa <1>
  • Lehi
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Lehi is located in Maricopa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lehi
  • Casa Grande
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Peoria
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Peoria is located in Maricopa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peoria
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 179,872 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Peoria <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Sacate ...

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 413 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sacate.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sacate, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sacate.

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 Sacate:

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>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.
<3>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 Sacate, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Sacate) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.