A visit to the Puerto Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Puerto Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Puerto Cemetery (FG ID #38341).
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Puerto Cemetery ...
We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Puerto Cemetery:
34.9212, -103.5362
The Puerto Cemetery is located in Quay County<2>.
The county seat for Quay County is located in Tucumcari. Tucumcari lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<3> to the north northwest of the Puerto Cemetery .
Open a Google Map centered on the Puerto Cemetery.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 20 that are within 22 miles [35.4 km] of the Puerto Cemetery.<4>
We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Puerto Cemetery, with the nearest first.
- Brown Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Plain Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Norton Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Beevers Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Apodaca Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Stockton Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Wheatland Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Prater Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Newhome Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Grady City Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant Valley Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Dodson Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- Browning Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- San Jon Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- The San Jon Cemetery is located in Quay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Jon Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the San Jon Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in San Jon.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38408 <1>
- Yeakley Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- The Yeakley Cemetery is located in Curry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeakley Cemetery
- Field Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- The Field Cemetery is located in Curry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Field Cemetery
- Roach Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Boot Hill Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Tucumcari Memorial Park
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- McAlister Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 11 communities are within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of the Puerto Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Puerto Cemetery, with the nearest first:
- Ragland
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Grady
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Lesbia ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- San Jon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Broadview
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- McAlister
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Weber City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Weber City is located in Curry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weber City
- Tucumcari
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Bellview
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Cummings Place
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- House
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Puerto Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Quay County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Puerto Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Grady
- Grady lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<3> to the East Southeast (ESE) of the Puerto Cemetery.
- Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Grady.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
- House
- San Jon
- Tucumcari
Websites to help with your 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 websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Puerto Cemetery:
- Pages specific to New Mexico:
- Pages specific to Quay County:
- Genealogy information for nearby counties:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Puerto Cemetery:
Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry: #38341
- Referenced GNIS Record ...
- GNIS ID #893534 (Puerto Cemetery)
- Note: In 2021, GNIS record #893534 was archived by the USGS. It is no longer maintained by the USGS, nor can it be retrieved from their website. In the past, the GNIS record contained the following information:
- BGN Class: cemetery
- County: Quay
- Est. Elev: 1313 (in feet)
- Topo Map Name: Norton
- Location given for Puerto Cemetery:
- Lat: 34.9208954 Lon: -103.5360699
- Open a Google Map centered on the above location.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of New Mexico's counties, including Quay, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Puerto Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), be assured that it's not complete and we're still searching for cemeteries to add. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |