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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Silverbell. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Silverbell to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Silverbell, 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 Silverbell (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 Silverbell. 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 doctors 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 Silverbell is historic, it would have been located within present day 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 Silverbell. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Silverbell:
- Pima County (The home county of Silverbell)
- The following are listed by their distance from Silverbell, with the one closest to Silverbell listed first.
- Avra Valley
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Avra Valley is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avra Valley
- Nelson
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Nelson is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nelson
- Marana
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Picture Rocks
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Picture Rocks is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Picture Rocks
- Rillito
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Schuchk
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Schuchk is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schuchk
- Cortaro
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Three Points
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Three Points is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Points
- Tortolita
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Comobabi
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Comobabi is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comobabi
- Ak Chin
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Ak Chin is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ak Chin
- Anegam
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Anegam is located in Pima County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anegam
- Pinal County
- The following are listed by their distance from Silverbell, with the one closest to Silverbell listed first.
- Sasco ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Sasco is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sasco
- Red Rock
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Picacho
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Eloy
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Arizona City
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Tat Momoli
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Tat Momoli is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tat Momoli
- North Komelik
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- North Komelik is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Komelik
- Toltec
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Toltec is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toltec
- Toltec has also been known as:
- Toltec City
- Chuichu
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Chuichu is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chuichu
- Kohatk
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Kohatk is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kohatk
- Vaiva Vo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Vaiva Vo is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vaiva Vo
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Silverbell, see our County-by-County Page for Silverbell.
Cemeteries Near Silverbell ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Silverbell.
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 Silverbell - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Silverbell covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Silverbell, with the one closest to Silverbell listed first.
- Silver Bell Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Sasco Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Eloy Memorial Park
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Sil Nakya Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Rillito Ranch Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rillito Ranch Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Rillito Ranch Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the southeast of Rillito.
- The Rillito Ranch Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cortaro Cemetery
- Cortaro / Rillito Ranch Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2474377 <4>
- Chuichu North Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Chuichu South Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Desert Rose Memorial Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Ak Chin Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ak Chin Cemetery
- The Ak Chin Cemetery has also been known as:
- Akchin Cemetery
- Cockleburr Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cockleburr Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Cockleburr Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the southwest of Casa Grande.
- The Cockleburr Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cuckelburr Cemetery
- Cuckleburr Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2232225 <4>
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 Silverbell in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Silverbell.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Silverbell, with the one closest to Silverbell listed first.
- Red Rock
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Picacho
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Rillito
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Toltec
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Toltec is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toltec
- Toltec has also been known as:
- Toltec City
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Silverbell. See our List of 1890's Communities around Silverbell.
Newspapers Published in Silverbell ...
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 17 newspapers that have been published in the area around Silverbell.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Silverbell, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Silverbell.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Silverbell:
- Websites specific to Arizona
- Pages specific to Pima County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arizona
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 Silverbell, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Silverbell) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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. |