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Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Cunningham Hill during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Cunningham Hill was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

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 Cunningham Hill (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 Cunningham Hill. 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 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 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.

Cunningham Hill is located in Beaver 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 Beaver County: Lincoln (NV), Iron, Millard, Piute & Sevier.

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

  • Beaver County     (The home county of Cunningham Hill)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cunningham Hill, with the one closest to Cunningham Hill listed first.
    • Manderfield
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Manderfield is located in Beaver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manderfield
    • North Creek
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • North Creek is located in Beaver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Creek
    • Greenville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Greenville is located in Beaver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
    • Beaver
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Beaver is located in Beaver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,200 people
      • Beaver has also been known as:
      • Beaver City
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Beaver <2>
    • Adamsville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Adamsville is located in Beaver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adamsville
      • Former names for Adamsville:
      • Beaver Iron Works
      • Wales
    • Fort Cameron ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Fort Cameron is located in Beaver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Cameron
    • Bradshaw ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Bradshaw is located in Beaver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradshaw
      • Bradshaw has also been known as:
      • Bradshaw City
      • Cave Mine Camp
      • Cave Mine
    • Sulphurdale ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Sulphurdale is located in Beaver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphurdale
    • Yellow Banks
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Yellow Banks is located in Beaver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Banks
    • Milford
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Minersville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Lees Spring ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Lees Spring is located in Beaver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lees Spring
  • Garfield County
    • Bone Valley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Bone Valley is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bone Valley
  • Iron County
    • Buckhorn Springs ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Buckhorn Springs is located in Iron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhorn Springs
  • Millard County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cunningham Hill, with the one closest to Cunningham Hill listed first.
    • Cove Fort ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Cove Fort is located in Millard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Fort
      • Cove Fort has also been known as:
      • Charles Willden's Fort
    • Black Rock ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Black Rock is located in Millard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Rock
  • Piute County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cunningham Hill, with the one closest to Cunningham Hill listed first.
    • Kimberly ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Kimberly is located in Piute County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberly
    • Lower Kimberly ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Lower Kimberly is located in Piute County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Kimberly
    • Alunite ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Alunite is located in Piute County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alunite
    • Hoovers
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Hoovers is located in Piute County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoovers
    • Pittsburg ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Pittsburg is located in Piute County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg
    • Marysvale
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Thompsonville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Thompsonville is located in Piute County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompsonville
    • Circleville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Junction
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Sevier County
    • Sevier
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Sevier is located in Sevier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevier

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

Cemeteries Near Cunningham Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cunningham Hill.

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 Cunningham Hill - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cunningham Hill, with the one closest to Cunningham Hill 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.<5>

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

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

  • Greenville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Greenville is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
  • Beaver
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Beaver is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,200 people
    • Beaver has also been known as:
    • Beaver City
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Beaver <2>
  • Adamsville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Adamsville is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adamsville
    • Former names for Adamsville:
    • Beaver Iron Works
    • Wales
  • Milford
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Minersville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Lees Spring ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Lees Spring is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lees Spring
  • Black Rock ‑ Historic
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Black Rock is located in Millard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Rock
  • Marysvale
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Circleville
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Junction
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Frisco ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Frisco is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frisco

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

Newspapers Published in Cunningham Hill ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cunningham Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cunningham Hill, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cunningham Hill.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Cunningham Hill:

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Cunningham Hill and then turned east". While Cunningham Hill could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Cunningham Hill as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Cunningham Hill could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

Since confusion between counties is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Utah community named Cunningham Hill.
<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 '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- Cunningham Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<5>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 Cunningham Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.