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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 Vopolo Havoka (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 Vopolo Havoka. 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 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.

Vopolo Havoka is located in Pima 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 Pima County: Cochise, Graham, Maricopa, Pinal, Santa Cruz & Yuma.

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

  • Pima County     (The home county of Vopolo Havoka)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vopolo Havoka, with the one closest to Vopolo Havoka listed first.
    • Vamori
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Vamori is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vamori
    • Cowlic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Cowlic is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowlic
    • Topawa
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • South Komelik
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • South Komelik is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Komelik
    • Choulic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Choulic is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Choulic
    • Sells
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Ali Chukson
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Ali Chukson is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ali Chukson
    • San Miguel
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • San Miguel is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Miguel
    • Ali Molina
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Ali Molina is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ali Molina
    • Gu Oidak
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Gu Oidak is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gu Oidak
    • Chiawuli Tak
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Chiawuli Tak is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chiawuli Tak
    • Chutum Vaya ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Chutum Vaya is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chutum Vaya
    • Nolic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Nolic is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolic

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

Cemeteries Near Vopolo Havoka ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Vopolo Havoka.

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 Vopolo Havoka - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Vopolo Havoka covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Cowlic Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Komlic Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • San Miguel Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Nolic Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Haivana Nakya Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haivana Nakya Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Haivana Nakya Cemetery is located 48 miles [77.2 km]<3> to the west of Tucson.
  • Sikul Himatk Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sikul Himatk Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sikul Himatk Cemetery is located 16 miles [25.7 km]<3> to the northwest of Sells.
  • Pisinimo Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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.<4>

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

  • Quijotoa ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Quijotoa is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quijotoa

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

Newspapers Published in Vopolo Havoka ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Vopolo Havoka.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Vopolo Havoka, there are papers which were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Vopolo Havoka.

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 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 Vopolo Havoka:

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>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 from Point A (ie- Vopolo Havoka) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Vopolo Havoka, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.