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Arizona State Archive Holdings for Apache County, AZ


This Guide was prepared by the Archives Division, Department of Library, Archives and Public Records, 1994. Only pre 1900 records are listed on this web site.
 
SG 1 Assessor
  • Military Enrollments 1917
  • Duplicate Assessment roll 1905
  • Military enrollments are arranged by marital status, then alphabetically by last name.
  • Duplicate copy of the assessment roll on which corrections and changes to the original were made.
SG 4 Justice of the Peace
  • Corners’ Inquests 1882-1947
  • Justice of the Peace Cases 1882-1919
The early records are handwritten, but later inquests are typed except for the signatures. Files include oaths directed to Coroners’ juries and their instructions. Inquests are arranged chronologically.
The cases are filed by year and divided into precincts.
SG 5 Recorder
  • Great Registers 1884-1910
  • Appointments, Bonds and Oaths 1879-1898
  • Livestock Marks and Brands 1879-1897
  • Townsite Papers 1887-1934
  • This group includes great registers, jury lists and affidavits. The great register for 1886 is missing. Jury lists were made up from voter registrations 1895-1906. The affidavits are for registration of naturalized citizens in the great registers. Affidavits note all great register information, 1896, for Springerville, and for Lake Erin and Woodruff.
  • Files contain papers from county offices and officers: Recorder, Assessor, Constable and Judges.
  • The volumes are indexed by owners’ name. Some pages have cancellations.
  • Include information on Concho, Nutrioso, St. Johns, Springerville and Luna Amusement Park. Records include petitions of church authorities/trustees to hold title to real estate belonging to individuals of the Eater Ward, Concho Ward, Alpine Ward, Nutrioso Ward and Greer Wards of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1899.
SG 6 Sheriff
  • License Tax and Feebook 1887-1891
  • Records document license taxes collected per quarter, Sheriffs’ fees for civil cases and Sheriffs’ fees due the county Treasurer. The book also contains 1889 taxes collected on tax deeds, cash assessments 1889, of candidates for office; named accounts; and fees 1887-1888, for serving papers and travel expenses.
SG 7 Superintendent of Schools
  • Teacher’s Registers 1882-1955
  • School Census 1926
  • School Reports 1881-1950
  • Register of School Warrants 1889-1910
  • Financial Records 1892-1907
  • Proceedings 1883
  • Files contain teachers’ registers of student attendance.
  • This is a census of school children between the ages of five and twenty-one.
  • School reports are public school teachers’ quarterly reports. The records are incomplete and not al districts are listed for all years. Another type of report is the report of the clerk of the board of trustees. There are also teachers’ reports to the trustees which teachers filed monthly in order to receive their salary.
  • These are warrants drawn on school funds. There are other financial records for salaries (teachers and others), repairs, supplies and janitor services for specific school districts and years.
  • This volume is an anomaly of a constable feebook, which is a journal of fees for mileage and serving papers.
  • These are the minutes of the Apache County School Board for 1883.
SG 8 Superior Court
  • Clerk of the Court 1881-1931
  • Civil Division 1879-1931
  • Criminal Division 1876-1940
  • Probate Division 1879-1929
  • The records include an index to District Court papers 1881-1931; calendar 1883-1893; jury book 1885-1910; minutes 1893-1911; judgment book 1886-1920; subpoenas 1895-1901; court orders 1899-1900; and register of actions 1882-1911. Court orders 1897-1900 are to open and adjourn court, postpone court, payment for court reporters and court fees. Register of actions, 1882-1911, includes an index of criminal cases.
  • Records include cases 1881-1929; tax suits 1907-1924; marriage certificates 1879-1931; and marriage affidavits 1889-1931. Civil cases 1907-1924 start with tax suits numbered 573 through 1630. Case papers may include petitions, back tax bills, summons, actions, receipts, defaults or dismissals. Marriage certificates, 1879-1931, are indexed by male last name. Register of civil actions 1887-1920 is also included.
  • Records include criminal register of actions and feebook 1915-1940 and cases 1876-1913. The criminal Division contains a register of actions and feebook 1915-194, but does not specify fees. District Court cases 1876-1929 are filed by year. A few from the 1880’s are in Spanish. A new numbering system started in 1909, after which cases are filed by case number.
  • Records from the Probate Division include minutes 1880-1924; cases 1879-1914; state, guardianship and oaths of office 1882-1928; writs of habeas corpus 1883; record of wills, 1891-1928; official bonds and oaths 1882-1883; insanity cases 1891-1925; and naturalization records, including declarations of intention and petitions 1881-1931. Minutes 1880-1924 are arranged chronologically but early entries are not indexed. From 1882 on they are indexed. The minutes contain letters of administration relating to court orders or guardianship of minor children. Probate cases 1879-1914 are filed by case number. A few early cases are in Spanish.
  • Estate, guardianship and oaths of office are indexed and include register of proceedings, orders, letters of guardianship, bonds, decree of settlement of account, adoptions, and orders of adoptions. Writs of habeas corpus 1883,are orders to have persons appear before Judge of Probate court. Record of wills 1891-1928, is indexed and contains wills admitted to probate, last wills and testaments, ad codicils to wills. Official bonds and oaths 1882-1883, are the oats of bonds for executors of wills and guardians for minors. Probate insanity cases 1891-1925 is filed alphabetically and indexed 1883-1913. They are records of insanity hearings brought before the court for examination and commitment.
  • Naturalization petitions and records 1896-1929 and the applications to become a US citizen. Intentions are indexed. There are also earlier records 1896-1908 of different titles such as naturalization declarations and certificates, certified copies of declaration of intention, petition and affidavits for naturalization.
SG 9 Board of Supervisors
  • Jury Lists 1893-1924
  • Jury lists are frequently annotated great registers but may be typed (or handwritten) lists of names only.

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