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 Clay Hills Crossing (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 Clay Hills Crossing. 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.

Name Variations for Clay Hills Crossing ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Clay Hills Crossing: Clay Hills Xing.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Clay Hills Crossing is located in San Juan County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of San Juan County: Apache (AZ), Coconino (AZ), Navajo (AZ), Dolores (CO), Montezuma (CO), Montrose (CO), San Miguel (CO), San Juan (NM), Emery, Garfield, Grand, Kane & Wayne.

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

• San Juan County     (The home county of Clay Hills Crossing)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Clay Hills Crossing, with the one closest to Clay Hills Crossing listed first.
  • Piute Farms ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Piute Farms. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piute Farms
    • Piute Farms is located in San Juan County
  • Zahn's Camp ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Zahn's Camp. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zahn's Camp
    • Zahn's Camp is located in San Juan County
  • Oljato
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oljato
    • Oljato is located in San Juan County
    • Oljato has also been known as:
    • Moonlight
    • Oljato Trading Post
    • Olje
    • Oljeto Trading Post
    • Oljeto
    • Oljetoh Trading Post
  • Halls Crossing
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halls Crossing
    • Halls Crossing is located in San Juan County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Halls Crossing <2>
  • Rainbow City
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rainbow City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow City
    • Rainbow City is located in San Juan County
  • Navajo Mountain
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo Mountain
    • Navajo Mountain is located in San Juan County
  • Halchita
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halchita
    • Halchita is located in San Juan County
• Kane County
  • Bullfrog
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullfrog
    • Bullfrog is located in Kane County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bullfrog <2>
• Navajo County (AZ)
  • Oljato - Monument Valley
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oljato - Monument Valley
    • Oljato - Monument Valley is located in Navajo County (AZ)

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

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 Clay Hills Crossing:

• Websites specific to Utah
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //archives.utah.gov/

• Pages specific to San Juan County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Kane County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Navajo County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Utah
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Utah
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Utah
  • Cemeteries of San Juan County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Utah
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Utah

Cemeteries Near Clay Hills Crossing ...

We're sorry, but we don't know of any cemeteries in the area around Clay Hills Crossing.

This is a new section of our Gazetteer and we're still collecting data about cemeteries and their location. If you know of a cemetery that should be included, please let us know.

We are looking for information such as the name of the cemetery, its GPS location, whether the cemetery is still in use or if it is historic (ie- defunct, abandoned,  etc.). If it applies, we would also like to learn of any past or alternate names that the cemetery has been known by.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our collection of Genealogy Websites.

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for State of Utah: https://www.utah.gov/