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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Arthur. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Arthur to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Arthur, please Contact Us.

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 Arthur (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 Arthur. 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 hospitals and 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Arthur is historic, it would have been located within present day Salt Lake County.

To see how the shape of Utah's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Salt Lake County: Davis, Morgan, Summit, Tooele, Utah & Wasatch.

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

  • Salt Lake County     (The home county of Arthur)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arthur, with the one closest to Arthur listed first.
    • Browns Townsite
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Browns Townsite is also located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browns Townsite
    • Chambers Townsite
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Chambers Townsite is also located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers Townsite
    • Magna
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Garfield ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Centennial Village
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Centennial Village is also located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centennial Village
    • Riter
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Saltair ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Bacchus ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Centennial Village Two
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Centennial Village Two is also located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centennial Village Two
    • Martin Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Martin Village is also located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin Village
    • Chateau Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Chateau Village is also located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chateau Village
    • Cherrywood Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Cherrywood Village is also located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherrywood Village
  • Davis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arthur, with the one closest to Arthur listed first.
    • Castle
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Castle is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle
    • North Salt Lake
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Val Verda
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Woods Cross
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Bountiful Fort ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Bountiful
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Oakhaven Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Oakhaven Village is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakhaven Village
    • West Bountiful
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Cottonwood Heights
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Cottonwood Heights is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood Heights
    • Benchmark Village
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Benchmark Village is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benchmark Village
    • Center Village
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Center Village is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Village
    • Centerville Fort ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Morgan County
  • Summit County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arthur, with the one closest to Arthur listed first.
    • Altus ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Summit Park
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Summit Park is located in Summit County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Park
    • Gorgosa
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Gorgosa is located in Summit County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gorgosa
  • Tooele County
  • Utah County
  • Weber County

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

Cemeteries Near Arthur ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Arthur.

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 Arthur - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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.

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

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

  • Riter
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • El Dorado
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • El Dorado is also located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Dorado
  • Lake Point
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Granger
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Granger is also located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granger
  • Mills Junction
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Buena Vista
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Buena Vista is also located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista
  • Bingham ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Bingham was located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bingham
    • Bingham has also been known as:
    • Bingham Canyon
    • Bingham Herd House
    • Binghams Gulch
    • Jinxtown
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Bingham
    • From Arthur to Bingham
  • Taylorsville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Erda
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • West Jordan
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Franklin
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Franklin is also located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin
  • Salt Lake City
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Hot Springs
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Hot Springs is also located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
    • Murray
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Millcreek
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Millcreek is also located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millcreek

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

Newspapers Published in Arthur ...

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 3 newspapers that have been published in the area around Arthur.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Arthur, there are papers which were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Arthur.

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 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 Arthur:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Arthur, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>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- Arthur) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.