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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 Little Water (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 Little Water. 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.

Little Water 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 Little Water. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Little Water:

  • San Juan County     (The home county of Little Water)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Water, with the one closest to Little Water listed first.
    • Tselakai Dezza
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tselakai Dezza have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tselakai Dezza
      • Tselakai Dezza is located in San Juan County
    • Bluff Fort ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Fort
      • Bluff Fort is located in San Juan County
    • Bluff
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • White Mesa Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Mesa Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Mesa Village
      • White Mesa Village is located in San Juan County
    • Red Lake Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Lake Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lake Village
      • Red Lake Village is located in San Juan County
    • White Rock Curve Village
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Rock Curve Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock Curve Village
      • White Rock Curve Village is located in San Juan County
    • Montezuma Creek
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Mexican Hat
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Halchita
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halchita
      • Halchita is located in San Juan County
    • Aneth
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • White Mesa
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Mesa
      • White Mesa is located in San Juan County
  • Apache County (AZ)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Water, with the one closest to Little Water listed first.
    • Red Mesa
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Mesa have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Mesa
      • Red Mesa is located in Apache County (AZ)
    • Tes Nez Iah
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tes Nez Iah
      • Tes Nez Iah is located in Apache County (AZ)
    • Totacon
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Totacon
      • Totacon is located in Apache County (AZ)
    • Dennehotso
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Rock Point
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Teec Nos Pos
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Little Water:

Cemeteries Near Little Water ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Little Water.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Little Water, with the one closest to Little Water 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 Little Water in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Little Water.

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Little Water) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Little Water. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1033, Longitude: -109.5518       In this case, the coordinates for Little Water have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Little Water, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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