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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 Troweek (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 Troweek. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Troweek 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 Troweek. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Troweek:

  • Apache County     (The home county of Troweek)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Troweek, with the one closest to Troweek listed first.
    • Alpine
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Nutrioso
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Eagar
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Springerville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Greer
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Northwoods
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northwoods
      • Northwoods is located in Apache County
  • Greenlee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Troweek, with the one closest to Troweek listed first.
    • Sprucedale ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sprucedale. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprucedale
      • Sprucedale is located in Greenlee County
    • Blue
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Catron County (NM)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Troweek, with the one closest to Troweek listed first.
    • Luna
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Reserve
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Cruzville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cruzville
      • Cruzville is located in Catron County (NM)
    • Apache Creek
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apache Creek
      • Apache Creek is located in Catron County (NM)
    • Aragon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Troweek ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Troweek.

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

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

  • Alpine City Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Rogers Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Maxwell Family Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maxwell Family Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Maxwell Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Maxwell Family Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Nutrioso.
    • The Maxwell Family Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Maxwell Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57060 <4>
  • Luna Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Spur Lake Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Nutrioso Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Schultz Gravesite
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Butler Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Butler Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Butler Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #56983 <4>
  • Burk Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Burk Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Burk Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2216553 <4>
  • Eagar Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Blue Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Becker Family Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Becker Family Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Becker Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2216549 <4>
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Jones Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jones Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Jones Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57044 <4>
    • Reserve Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Reserve Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Reserve Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38357 <4>
    • Apache Creek Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 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.<6>

While we didn't find Troweek in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Troweek.

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

  • Nutrioso
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Springerville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Troweek ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Troweek.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Troweek, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Troweek.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Troweek:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Troweek. 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Troweek) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Troweek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9289, Longitude: -109.0606       In this case, the coordinates for Troweek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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.
<6>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 Troweek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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