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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 Totacon (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 Totacon. 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 and hospitals 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.

Totacon is located in Apache 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 Apache County: Graham, Greenlee, Navajo, Montezuma (CO), Catron (NM), Cibola (NM), McKinley (NM), San Juan (NM) & San Juan (UT).

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

  • Apache County     (The home county of Totacon)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Totacon, with the one closest to Totacon listed first.
    • Red Mesa
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Mesa have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Mesa
      • Red Mesa is located in Apache County
    • Rock Point
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Tes Nez Iah
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tes Nez Iah
      • Tes Nez Iah is located in Apache County
    • Teec Nos Pos
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Round Rock
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Dennehotso
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Red Rock
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Rock
      • Red Rock is located in Apache County
    • Red Valley
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Valley
      • Red Valley is located in Apache County
  • San Juan County (NM)
    • Beclabito
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beclabito have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beclabito
      • Beclabito is located in San Juan County (NM)
  • San Juan County (UT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Totacon, with the one closest to Totacon listed first.
    • White Mesa Village
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Mesa Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Mesa Village
      • White Mesa Village is located in San Juan County (UT)
    • Red Lake Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Lake Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lake Village
      • Red Lake Village is located in San Juan County (UT)
    • White Rock Curve Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Rock Curve Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock Curve Village
      • White Rock Curve Village is located in San Juan County (UT)
    • Tselakai Dezza
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tselakai Dezza have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tselakai Dezza
      • Tselakai Dezza is located in San Juan County (UT)
    • Aneth
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Montezuma Creek
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Bluff Fort ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Fort
      • Bluff Fort is located in San Juan County (UT)
    • Bluff
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

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

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 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 Totacon:

Cemeteries Near Totacon ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Totacon.

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

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

  • Cove Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Cove Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cove Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1997686 <4>
  • Aneth Burial Ground
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Totacon. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Apache County: www.co.apache.az.us/

The official website for State of Arizona: https://az.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<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.
<5>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- Totacon) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Totacon. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8510, Longitude: -109.4257    









 

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