Heber "In section 13, T. 12, N., R. 16 E. Mormon settlement of about 1880, on Black Canyon, 50 miles southwest of Holbrook. After Heber C. Kimball, chief Justice, State of Deseret, 1883. John Bushman was first settler. It was quite a settlement up to about 1883 when several years of drought drove most of the settlers away. About 1883, John Hoyle, former cook for the Hashknife Outfit, opened a store here, which he ran for several years. PO Est. September 11, 1890. James Shelley PM."

Barnes, Will C.; Granger, Byrd (ed.) Arizona Place Names University of Arizona Press. 1997
P. 203

"In 1876 and 1877 two companies of Mormon emigrants from Arkansas were assigned to Little Colorado River Settlements. John W. N. Scarlett, first sent to Allen's Camp, withdrew in 1883 to found Heber where John Bushman had found water in 1882. The new community as named for Heber C. Kimball, Chief Justice of the State of Deseret or, according to a second source, for Heber J. Grant, President of the Mormon Church."

Barnes, Will C.; Granger, Byrd (ed.) Arizona's names : X marks the place Falconer Pub. Co. : distributed by Treasure Chest Publications, c1983. P. 296

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