Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Agudo. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Agudo to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Agudo, please Contact Us.

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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 Agudo (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 Agudo. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Agudo is historic, it would have been located within present day DeBaca County.

To see how the shape of New Mexico's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of DeBaca County: Chaves, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay & Roosevelt.

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

• DeBaca County     (The home county of Agudo)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Agudo, with the one closest to Agudo listed first.
  • Fort Sumner
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Sumner
    • Fort Sumner is located in DeBaca County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 854 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Sumner <2>
  • Lake Sumner
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake Sumner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Sumner
    • Lake Sumner is located in DeBaca County
  • Taiban
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taiban
    • Taiban is located in DeBaca County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Taiban <2>
  • Yeso
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeso
    • Yeso is located in DeBaca County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yeso <2>
• Quay County
  • House
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for House
    • House is located in Quay County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 61 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for House <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Agudo ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Agudo.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Agudo, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Agudo.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Agudo:

• Websites specific to New Mexico
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the State Records Center and Archives

• Pages specific to DeBaca County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Quay County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for New Mexico
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cemeteries of DeBaca County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cemeteries of DeBaca County

Cemeteries Near Agudo ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Agudo.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Agudo, with the one closest to Agudo listed first.

• Ricardo Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ricardo Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ricardo Cemetery
• Morris Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Morris Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Morris Cemetery
• Old Ft. Sumner Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Old Ft. Sumner Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<4> to the northwest of Fort Sumner.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Ft. Sumner Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38292 <5>
• Ft. Sumner Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Ft. Sumner Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Fort Sumner.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Sumner Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38074 <5>
• La Lande Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the La Lande Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the La Lande Cemetery
• Guadalupe Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Guadalupe Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Guadalupe Cemetery
• Salado Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Salado Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salado Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38393 <5>
• Salado Creek Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Salado Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salado Creek Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38394 <5>
• Locust Grove Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Locust Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Locust Grove Cemetery
• Taiban Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Taiban Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Taiban Cemetery
• Yeso Catholic Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • The Yeso Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Yeso Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yeso Catholic Cemetery
• Gerhardt Cemetery
  (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gerhardt Cemetery is located 12 miles [19.3 km]<4> to the southwest of Fort Sumner.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gerhardt Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38082 <5>
• Continue List   (10 more) ...
  • Blanco Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Blanco Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blanco Cemetery
  • Lone Mesa Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lone Mesa Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lone Mesa Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38187 <5>
  • Engleville Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Engleville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Engleville Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.gov/