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 Tonto Estate (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 Tonto Estate. 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.
Name Variations for Tonto Estate ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Tonto Estate: Tonto Est.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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.
Tonto Estate is located in Gila 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 Gila County: Coconino, Graham, Maricopa, Navajo, Pinal & Yavapai.
Below are the counties that are near Tonto Estate. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Tonto Estate:
- Gila County (The home county of Tonto Estate)
- The following are listed by their distance from Tonto Estate, with the one closest to Tonto Estate listed first.
- Kohls Ranch
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Kohls Ranch is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kohls Ranch
- Tonto Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Tonto Village is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonto Village
- Bear Flat
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Bear Flat is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Flat
- Christopher Creek
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Christopher Creek is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christopher Creek
- Whispering Pines
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Whispering Pines is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whispering Pines
- Star Valley
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- 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 <1>
- Sun Valley
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Sun Valley is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Valley
- Freedom Acres
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Freedom Acres is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom Acres
- Mesa Del Caballo
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mesa Del Caballo is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Del Caballo
- Flowing Springs
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Flowing Springs is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flowing Springs
- Payson
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Geronimo Estates
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Geronimo Estates is located in Gila County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geronimo Estates
- Coconino County
- The following are listed by their distance from Tonto Estate, with the one closest to Tonto Estate listed first.
- Wiggins Crossing
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Wiggins Crossing is located in Coconino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiggins Crossing
- Forest Lakes
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Clints Well
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Clints Well is located in Coconino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clints Well
- Navajo County
- The following are listed by their distance from Tonto Estate, with the one closest to Tonto Estate listed first.
- Heber
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Heber - Overgaard
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Heber - Overgaard is located in Navajo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heber - Overgaard
- Overgaard
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Tonto Estate, see our County-by-County Page for Tonto Estate.
Cemeteries Near Tonto Estate ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tonto Estate.
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 Tonto Estate - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Tonto Estate covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Tonto Estate, with the one closest to Tonto Estate listed first.
- Mountain Meadows Memorial Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Payson Pioneer Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Gisela Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- 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 <2>
- Young Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Young Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Young Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Young
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2181559 <2>
- Stott, Scott & Wilson Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Pine Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Pine Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Pine.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1978653 <2>
- Haught Ranch Pioneer Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- 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 <2>
- Brown Family Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Baca Family Cemetery
- The Baca Family Cemetery is located on private property - be sure to secure permission before visiting.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baca Family Cemetery
- The Baca Family Cemetery has also been known as:
- Baca Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2217985 <2>
- Q Ranch Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Strawberry Old Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Heber Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 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.<3>
While we didn't find Tonto Estate in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Tonto Estate.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Tonto Estate, with the one closest to Tonto Estate listed first.
- Payson
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Young
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Pine
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Rye
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Tonto Estate. See our List of 1890's Communities around Tonto Estate.
Newspapers Published in Tonto Estate ...
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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tonto Estate.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tonto Estate, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tonto Estate.
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 Tonto Estate:
- Websites specific to Arizona
- Pages specific to Gila County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Coconino County
- Navajo County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arizona
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 Tonto Estate, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Tonto Estate) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |