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Podunk was a small town located in the desert, in the vicinity of Globe, Arizona. It is thought to have been founded in the 1800s but became a ghost town around 1963. At its peak it had a population of around 1000 people. At the present time the founders are unknown. The little town had a hospital and a small newspaper when it was active, and the cemetery is still there. It appears that birth certificates were issued as early as 1910 and as recently as 1942. The hospital records of the hospital at Podunk may have been moved to the health clinic in the nearby town of Kernel, Arizona, a few miles away. The newspaper was called Podunk Publishes which closed down in 1963. The headstones at the cemetery have worn down making it very difficult to get names and dates. There is a registry in the city hall of Kernel with the names of those buried in the Podunk cemetery. There were a several churches in Podunk including Methodists, Baptists. The Mormons met in a house and the Catholics drove to Via Sonora to attend church..