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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 Dunn 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 Dunn 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 Dunn 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 occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Dunn Place: Dunn Pl. (or less commonly used: Dunn Plc.)

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 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.

Dunn Place is located in Torrance County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Torrance County: Bernalillo, Guadalupe, Lincoln, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Socorro & Valencia.

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

  • Torrance County     (The home county of Dunn Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dunn Place, with the one closest to Dunn Place listed first.
    • Moriarty
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • McIntosh
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Estancia
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Tajique
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Torreon
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Torreon is located in Torrance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreon
    • Manzano
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Manzano is located in Torrance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manzano
    • Clines Corners
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Willard
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Bernalillo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dunn Place, with the one closest to Dunn Place listed first.
    • Chilili
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Chilili is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chilili
    • Ponderosa Pine
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Ponderosa Pine is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponderosa Pine
    • Cedar Crest
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Sandia Knolls
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Sandia Knolls is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandia Knolls
    • Tijeras
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Canoncito
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Canoncito is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canoncito
    • Sandia Park
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Carnuel
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Carnuel is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carnuel
    • Monticello
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Canada Village
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Canada Village is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canada Village
    • Sandia Heights
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Sandia Heights is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandia Heights
    • Mesa Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Mesa Village is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Village
  • Sandoval County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dunn Place, with the one closest to Dunn Place listed first.
    • Diamond Tail Ranch
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Diamond Tail Ranch is located in Sandoval County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond Tail Ranch
    • Placitas
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Pueblo of Sandia Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Santa Fe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dunn Place, with the one closest to Dunn Place listed first.
    • Edgewood
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Cedar Grove
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Cedar Grove is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
    • Stanley
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • San Pedro
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • San Pedro is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pedro
    • Golden ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Golden is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden
    • Madrid
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Galisteo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Los Cerrillos
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Los Cerrillos is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Cerrillos
      • Los Cerrillos has also been known as:
      • Cerrillos
  • Valencia County
    • Meadow Lake
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Meadow Lake is located in Valencia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Lake

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

Cemeteries Near Dunn Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dunn 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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Dunn Place - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dunn Place covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

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.<4>

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

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

  • San Pedro
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • San Pedro is located in Santa Fe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pedro
  • Golden ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Golden is located in Santa Fe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden
  • Ortiz ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Ortiz is located in Santa Fe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ortiz
  • Albuquerque
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Alameda
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Barr
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Barr is located in Bernalillo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barr

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

Newspapers Published in Dunn 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 160 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dunn Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dunn Place, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dunn Place.

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 either 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 Dunn Place:

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 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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Dunn Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Dunn Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.