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 Trovia (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 Trovia. 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.
Trovia is located in 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 Trovia. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Trovia:
- Maricopa County (The home county of Trovia)
- The following are listed by their distance from Trovia, with the one closest to Trovia listed first.
- Carefree Foothills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Carefree Foothills is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carefree Foothills
- Cave Creek
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Carefree
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Pinnacle Peak Village
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Oakhurst
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Oakhurst is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakhurst
- Palm Lakes Village
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Palm Lakes Village is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Lakes Village
- Sandalwood
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Sandalwood is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandalwood
- Paradise City
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Paradise City is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise City
- Paradise Village North II
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- The Town Square
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- The Town Square is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Town Square
- Central Park Village
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Central Park Village is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Park Village
- Anthem
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Yavapai County
- The following are listed by their distance from Trovia, with the one closest to Trovia listed first.
- Gillett ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Gillett is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillett
- Black Canyon City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Tip Top ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Tip Top is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tip Top
- Columbia ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Columbia is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
- Humbug ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Humbug is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humbug
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Trovia, see our County-by-County Page for Trovia.
Cemeteries Near Trovia ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Trovia.
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 Trovia - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Trovia covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Trovia, with the one closest to Trovia listed first.
- Mt. Sinai Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- 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 <2>
- National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Cave Creek Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Phoenix Memorial Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Hansen Desert Hills Memorial Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Paradise Memorial Gardens
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Camelback Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Glendale Memorial Park
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Valley of the Sun Memorial Park
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- West Resthaven Park Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Resthaven Park Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the West Resthaven Park Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Glendale.
- The West Resthaven Park Cemetery has also been known as:
- Resthaven Cemetery
- Resthaven Park West Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57098 <2>
- St. Francis Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Jim Hart Memorial Monument
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (34 more) ...
- Sunland Memorial Park
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Russian Molokan Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Cross Cut Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Cut Cemetery
- The Cross Cut Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cactus Mound Cemetery
- Williams Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2167539 <2>
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 Trovia in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Trovia.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Trovia, with the one closest to Trovia listed first.
- Cave Creek
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Peoria
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Phoenix
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Lehi
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Lehi is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lehi
- Tempe
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Mesa
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Mesa is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa
- Population from the 2020 Census: 528,159 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mesa <1>
- Tip Top ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Tip Top is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tip Top
- Kyrene
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Kyrene is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyrene
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Trovia. See our List of 1890's Communities around Trovia.
Newspapers Published in Trovia ...
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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Trovia.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Trovia, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Trovia.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Trovia:
- Websites specific to Arizona
- Pages specific to Maricopa County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- 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 Trovia, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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 drawn from Point A (ie- Trovia) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |