Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

We've added Adobes to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Adobes, 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 Adobes (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 Adobes. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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 Adobes is historic, it would have been located within present day Presidio County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Presidio County: Brewster & Jeff Davis.

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

• Presidio County     (The home county of Adobes)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Adobes, with the one closest to Adobes listed first.
  • Indio ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indio have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indio
    • Indio is located in Presidio County
  • Chinati ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chinati have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chinati
    • Chinati is located in Presidio County
  • Ochoa ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ochoa have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochoa
    • Ochoa is located in Presidio County
  • Shafter
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shafter
    • Shafter is located in Presidio County
  • Ruidosa
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruidosa
    • Ruidosa is located in Presidio County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ruidosa <3>
  • Presidio
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Presidio
    • Presidio is located in Presidio County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,770 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Presidio <3>
  • Candelaria
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candelaria
    • Candelaria is located in Presidio County
  • Casa Piedra ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Casa Piedra have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa Piedra
    • Casa Piedra is located in Presidio County
  • Redford
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redford
    • Redford is located in Presidio County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Redford <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Adobes ...

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 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Adobes.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Adobes, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Adobes.

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 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 Adobes:

• Websites specific to Texas
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //www.tsl.texas.gov/

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

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

Cemeteries Near Adobes ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Adobes.

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

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

• Adobes Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Adobes Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Adobes Cemetery
• Indio Ranch Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Indio Ranch Cemetery is located 14 miles [22.5 km]<4> to the southeast of Presidio.
  • The Indio Ranch Cemetery has also been known as:
  • El Indio Ranch Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Indio Ranch Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2634511 <5>
• Adobe Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Adobe Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Adobe Cemetery
• Spencer Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Spencer Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7028 <5>
• Chinati Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chinati Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chinati Cemetery
• Ochoa Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Ochoa Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Ochoa Cemetery is located 10 miles [16.1 km]<4> to the southeast of Presidio.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ochoa Cemetery
• Haciendita Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haciendita Cemetery
• Campo Santo Rodriguez Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Campo Santo Rodriguez Cemetery
• Desert Hills Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • The Desert Hills Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Presidio Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Desert Hills Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #6172 <5>
• Campo Santo Hernandez Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Campo Santo Hernandez Cemetery
• Casa Blanca Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Casa Blanca Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Casa Blanca Cemetery

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.

While we didn't find Adobes in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Adobes.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Adobes, with the one closest to Adobes listed first.

• Ochoa ‑ Historic
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ochoa have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochoa
  • Ochoa is located in Presidio County
• Shafter
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shafter
  • Shafter is located in Presidio County
• Presidio
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Presidio
  • Presidio is located in Presidio County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,770 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Presidio <3>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/