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Introduction ...

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

We've added Frisco to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Frisco, 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 Frisco (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 Frisco. 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Frisco is historic, it would have been located within present day Beaver 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 Beaver County: Lincoln (NV), Iron, Millard, Piute & Sevier.

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

  • Beaver County     (The home county of Frisco)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Frisco, with the one closest to Frisco listed first.
    • Newhouse ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Blueacre
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Blueacre. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blueacre
      • Blueacre is located in Beaver County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Blueacre
      • From Frisco to Blueacre
    • Arago City ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Shauntie ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Shauntie. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shauntie
      • Shauntie is located in Beaver County
      • Shauntie has also been known as:
      • Moscow
      • Shaunty Springs
      • Shaunty
      • Shawnee
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Shauntie
      • From Frisco to Shauntie
    • Beaver City ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Beaver City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver City
      • Beaver City is located in Beaver County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Beaver City
      • From Frisco to Beaver City
    • Shenandoah City ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Shenandoah City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shenandoah City
      • Shenandoah City is located in Beaver County
      • Shenandoah City has also been known as:
      • North Camp
      • North Star
      • Star City
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Shenandoah City
      • From Frisco to Shenandoah City
    • Milford
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Yellow Banks
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Upton
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Upton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upton
      • Upton is located in Beaver County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Upton
      • From Frisco to Upton
    • Laho
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Laho. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laho
      • Laho is located in Beaver County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Laho
      • From Frisco to Laho
    • Smyths ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Smyths. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyths
      • Smyths is located in Beaver County
      • Smyths has also been known as:
      • Read
      • Reed
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Smyths
      • From Frisco to Smyths
    • Cook Corner
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cook Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cook Corner
      • Cook Corner is located in Beaver County
    • Thermo ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Thermo have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thermo
      • Thermo is located in Beaver County
  • Millard County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Frisco, with the one closest to Frisco listed first.
    • Black Rock ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Ibex ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Frisco ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Frisco.

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

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

Frisco itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a population of 224 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Frisco ...

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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Frisco.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Frisco. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Frisco and those printed in the larger area surrounding Frisco.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<5> of Frisco.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Frisco:

The official website for Beaver County: www.beaver.state.ut.us/

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

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 Frisco, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Frisco) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Frisco. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.4601, Longitude: -113.2600    
<6>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.




 

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