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Introduction ...

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

We've added Sunset City to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sunset City, 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 Sunset City (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 Sunset City. 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 southeast 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 south.

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 south 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 Sunset City is historic, it would have been located within present day Navajo 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 Navajo County: Apache, Coconino, Gila, Graham & San Juan (UT).

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

  • Navajo County     (The home county of Sunset City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunset City, with the one closest to Sunset City listed first.
    • Sunset ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sunset. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset
      • Sunset is located in Navajo County
    • Brigham City ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brigham City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brigham City
      • Brigham City is located in Navajo County
    • Winslow
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Joseph City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Holbrook
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Clearview Heights
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearview Heights
      • Clearview Heights is located in Navajo County
    • Dilkon
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dilkon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dilkon
      • Dilkon is located in Navajo County
  • Coconino County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunset City, with the one closest to Sunset City listed first.
    • Lechee
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lechee have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lechee
      • Lechee is located in Coconino County
    • Winslow West
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winslow West have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winslow West
      • Winslow West is located in Coconino County
    • Meteor City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meteor City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meteor City
      • Meteor City is located in Coconino County
    • Sunshine
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunshine have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
      • Sunshine is located in Coconino County
    • Two Guns ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Guns
      • Two Guns is located in Coconino County
    • Leupp
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Canyon Diablo ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Diablo
      • Canyon Diablo is located in Coconino County
    • Tolani Lake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolani Lake
      • Tolani Lake is located in Coconino County

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

Newspapers Published in Sunset City ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sunset City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sunset City, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sunset City.

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 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 Sunset City:

Cemeteries Near Sunset City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sunset City.

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 Sunset City covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Sunset Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Whipple Memorial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Whipple Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Whipple Memorial Park
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57140 <6>
  • Desert View Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Desert View Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Winslow.
    • The Desert View Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Winslow Desert View Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Desert View Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1967591 <6>
  • Brigham City Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Brigham City Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • The Brigham City Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Bellenger's Camp Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brigham City Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1981013 <6>
  • Joseph City Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Hunt Family Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Kempton Gravesite
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Canyon Diablo
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Canyon Diablo. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Canyon Diablo
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2330230 <6>
  • Seventh Day Adventist Mission Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Holbrook Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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 Sunset City in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sunset City.

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

  • Dennison
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dennison have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennison
    • Dennison is located in Coconino County
  • Canyon Diablo ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Diablo
    • Canyon Diablo is located in Coconino County
  • Holbrook
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

The official website for Navajo County: www.co.navajo.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 Sunset City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Sunset City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sunset City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0445, Longitude: -110.6535       In this case, the coordinates for Sunset City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.
<7>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Joseph City and Holbrook. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.




 

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