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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 Deer Creek Landing (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 Deer Creek Landing. 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 Deer Creek Landing ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Deer Creek Landing: Deer Crk. Lndg. (or less commonly used: Deer Ck. Lndg. or Deer Cr. Lndg.)

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.

Deer Creek Landing is located in Sandoval 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 Sandoval County: Bernalillo, Cibola, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba & Santa Fe.

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

  • Sandoval County     (The home county of Deer Creek Landing)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deer Creek Landing, with the one closest to Deer Creek Landing listed first.
    • Jemez Springs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Ponderosa
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jemez Pueblo
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Seven Springs
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Springs
      • Seven Springs is located in Sandoval County
    • San Ysidro
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Zia Pueblo
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Zia Pueblo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zia Pueblo
      • Zia Pueblo is located in Sandoval County
    • Copper City ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Copper City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper City
      • Copper City is located in Sandoval County
    • Cuba
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuba
      • Cuba is located in Sandoval County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 756 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cuba <1>
    • Santa Ana Pueblo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santa Ana Pueblo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Ana Pueblo
      • Santa Ana Pueblo is located in Sandoval County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Santa Ana Pueblo <1>
    • Torreon
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Torreon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreon
      • Torreon is located in Sandoval County
    • Cochiti Lake
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Cochiti Pueblo
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Los Alamos County
  • Rio Arriba County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deer Creek Landing, with the one closest to Deer Creek Landing listed first.
    • Arroyo del Agua
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arroyo del Agua
      • Arroyo del Agua is located in Rio Arriba County
    • Coyote
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Deer Creek Landing ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Deer Creek Landing.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Deer Creek Landing, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Deer Creek Landing.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Deer Creek Landing:

Cemeteries Near Deer Creek Landing ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Deer Creek Landing.

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 Deer Creek Landing covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Jemez Springs Catholic Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Canon Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Ponderosa Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ponderosa Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ponderosa Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38333 <4>
  • San Ysidro Catholic Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Cuba Presbyterian Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Immaculate Conception Catholic Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Guadalupe Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Guadalupe Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Guadalupe Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38097 <4>
  • Sile Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • The Sile Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Santa Barbara Cathholic Church de Sile Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sile Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38454 <4>
  • Santo Nino Mission Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Pena Blanca Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Guaje Pines Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Deer Creek Landing. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Sandoval County: www.sandovalcounty.com/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>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 from Point A (ie- Deer Creek Landing) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Deer Creek Landing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7442, Longitude: -106.7748       In this case, the coordinates for Deer Creek Landing have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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