Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Sunflower. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Sunflower to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sunflower, 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 Sunflower (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 Sunflower. 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 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Sunflower is historic, it would have been located within present day Maricopa 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 Maricopa County: Gila, La Paz, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai & Yuma.
Below are the counties that are near Sunflower. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sunflower:
- Maricopa County (The home county of Sunflower)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sunflower, with the one closest to Sunflower listed first.
- Rio Verde
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Fort McDowell
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Fort McDowell is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort McDowell
- Tortilla Flat
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Fountain Hills
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Carefree
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Pinnacle Peak Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Carefree Foothills
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Carefree Foothills is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carefree Foothills
- Cave Creek
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Continental Village
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Continental Village is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Continental Village
- Gila County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sunflower, with the one closest to Sunflower listed first.
- Tonto Basin
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Jakes Corner
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Jakes Corner is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jakes Corner
- Deer Creek
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Deer Creek is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Creek
- Rye
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Gisela
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Gisela is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gisela
- Oxbow Estates
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Oxbow Estates is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxbow Estates
- Roosevelt
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Payson
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Star Valley
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Star Valley is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star Valley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,327 people
- Star Valley has also been known as:
- Diamond Star
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Star Valley <2>
- Sun Valley
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Sun Valley is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Valley
- Mesa Del Caballo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Mesa Del Caballo is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Del Caballo
- Pinal County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sunflower, with the one closest to Sunflower listed first.
- Goldfield ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Goldfield is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldfield
- Youngberg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Youngberg is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngberg
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Sunflower, see our County-by-County Page for Sunflower.
Cemeteries Near Sunflower ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sunflower.
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 Sunflower - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Sunflower covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sunflower, with the one closest to Sunflower listed first.
- Packard Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Tonto Basin Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Brown Family Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Haught Ranch Pioneer Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haught Ranch Pioneer Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Haught Ranch Pioneer Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Rye.
- The Haught Ranch Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Last Roundup Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2253543 <3>
- Gisela Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gisela Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Gisela Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Gisela.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2217171 <3>
- Bacon Family Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Historic Roosevelt Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Jim Hart Memorial Monument
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Mountain Meadows Memorial Park
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Cave Creek Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Payson Pioneer Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Mt. Sinai Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Sinai Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Sinai Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Phoenix.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2233155 <3>
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 Sunflower in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sunflower.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Sunflower, with the one closest to Sunflower listed first.
- Rye
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Payson
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Cave Creek
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sunflower. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sunflower.
Newspapers Published in Sunflower ...
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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sunflower.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sunflower, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sunflower.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Sunflower:
- Websites specific to Arizona
- Pages specific to Maricopa 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 Sunflower, 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> | 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> | 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- Sunflower) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |