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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 Harrisburg Junction (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 Harrisburg Junction. 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 Harrisburg Junction ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Harrisburg Junction: Harrisburg Jct. (or less commonly used: Harrisburg Jctn.)

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

Harrisburg Junction is located in Washington 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 Washington County: Mohave (AZ), Lincoln (NV), Iron & Kane.

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

  • Washington County     (The home county of Harrisburg Junction)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Harrisburg Junction, with the one closest to Harrisburg Junction listed first.
    • Harrisburg ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Harrisburg is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisburg
      • Former names for Harrisburg:
      • Cottonwood
      • Harrisville
    • Babylon ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Babylon is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Babylon
      • Babylon has also been known as:
      • Stormont Mill
    • Washington
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Leeds
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Leeds is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leeds
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 879 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Leeds <1>
    • Middleton
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Middleton is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleton
    • Washington Fields
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Washington Fields is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Fields
    • Hurricane
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Browse
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Browse is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browse
    • Silver Reef ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Silver Reef is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Reef
    • La Verkin
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Saint George
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Fort Pearce ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Fort Pearce is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Pearce
    • Tonaquint ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Tonaquint is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonaquint
      • Tonaquint has also been known as:
      • Lick Skillet
      • Lower Clara
      • Seldom Stop
  • Iron County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Harrisburg Junction, with the one closest to Harrisburg Junction listed first.
    • Little Pinto ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Little Pinto is located in Iron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Pinto
      • Little Pinto has also been known as:
      • Page Ranch
    • Fort Kanarra ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Fort Kanarra is located in Iron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Kanarra
    • Kanarraville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Old Irontown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Old Irontown is located in Iron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Irontown
      • Old Irontown has also been known as:
      • Iron City
      • Irontown
  • Mohave County (AZ)
    • Colorado City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Harrisburg Junction ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Harrisburg Junction.

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 Harrisburg Junction - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Harrisburg Junction, with the one closest to Harrisburg Junction 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.<3>

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

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

  • Washington
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Silver Reef ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Silver Reef is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Reef
  • Saint George
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Santa Clara
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Virgin
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Pine Valley
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Gunlock
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Rockville
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • New Harmony
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Pinto
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Pinto is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinto
  • Hamblin ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Hamblin is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamblin
  • Kanarraville
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Harrisburg Junction ...

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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Harrisburg Junction.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Harrisburg Junction, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Harrisburg Junction.

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 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 Harrisburg Junction:

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>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 Harrisburg Junction, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Harrisburg Junction) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.