Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
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 Chaves Place (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 Chaves Place. 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.
Name Variations for Chaves Place ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.
- A typical abbreviation for Chaves Place: Chaves Pl. (or less commonly used: Chaves Plc.)
- While the name of this community is Chaves Place, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Chaves Place may originally have been Chave's Place.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Chaves Place might be written as Chave Place.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 hospitals and doctors 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.
Chaves Place is located in Sierra 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 Sierra County: Catron, Dona Ana, Grant, Lincoln, Luna, Otero & Socorro.
Below are the counties that are near Chaves Place. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Chaves Place:
- Sierra County (The home county of Chaves Place)
- The following are listed by their distance from Chaves Place, with the one closest to Chaves Place listed first.
- Chloride ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest) - Cuchillo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuchillo
- Cuchillo is located in Sierra County
- Rock Canyon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Canyon
- Rock Canyon is located in Sierra County
- Elephant Butte
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elephant Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elephant Butte
- Elephant Butte is located in Sierra County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,320 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elephant Butte <3>
- Truth or Consequences
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truth or Consequences
- Truth or Consequences is located in Sierra County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,769 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Truth or Consequences <3>
- Williamsburg
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Williamsburg have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsburg
- Williamsburg is located in Sierra County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 415 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Williamsburg <3>
- Las Palomas
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Palomas
- Las Palomas is located in Sierra County
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Chaves Place, see our County-by-County Page for Chaves Place.
Newspapers Published in Chaves Place ...
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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chaves Place.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chaves Place, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Chaves Place.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Chaves Place:
- 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 Sierra County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for New Mexico
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of New Mexico
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of New Mexico
- Cemeteries of Sierra County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of New Mexico
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of New Mexico
- Cemeteries of Sierra County
Cemeteries Near Chaves Place ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chaves Place.
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 Chaves Place covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Chaves Place, with the one closest to Chaves Place listed first.
- Monticello Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Monticello Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Monticello Cemetery
- Santa Nino Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Santa Nino Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Santa Nino Cemetery
- Dusty Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dusty Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dusty Cemetery
- Hermosa Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- To give a relative sense of its location, the Hermosa Cemetery is located 27 miles [43.5 km]<4> to the east of Truth or Consequences.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hermosa Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38109 <5>
- Palomas Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Palomas Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Palomas Cemetery
- Elephant Butte Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Elephant Butte Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elephant Butte 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.<6>
While we didn't find Chaves Place in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Chaves Place.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Chaves Place, with the one closest to Chaves Place listed first.
- Monticello ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Monticello have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monticello
- Monticello is located in Sierra County
- Chloride ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest) - Cuchillo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuchillo
- Cuchillo is located in Sierra County
- Grafton ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west) - Hermosa ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest) - Las Palomas
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Palomas
- Las Palomas is located in Sierra County
- Crocker
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Paraje ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast) - Lava
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Chaves Place. See our List of 1890's Communities around Chaves Place.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Chaves Place. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Chaves Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Chaves Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.4009, Longitude: -107.5059 In this case, the coordinates for Chaves Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Chaves Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |