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Introduction ...

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

We've added Eagle Hill to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Eagle Hill, please Contact Us.

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 Eagle Hill (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 Eagle Hill. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Eagle Hill is historic, it would have been located within present day Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt County: Chaves, Curry, Lea, Quay, Bailey (TX) & Cochran (TX).

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

  • Roosevelt County     (The home county of Eagle Hill)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eagle Hill, with the one closest to Eagle Hill listed first.
    • Milnesand
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Dora
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora
      • Dora is located in Roosevelt County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 118 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dora <2>
    • Kenna
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenna
      • Kenna is located in Roosevelt County
    • Elida
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elida
      • Elida is located in Roosevelt County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elida <2>
    • Causey
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Causey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Causey
      • Causey is located in Roosevelt County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 93 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Causey <2>
  • Lea County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eagle Hill, with the one closest to Eagle Hill listed first.
    • Crossroads
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Tatum
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Cochran County (TX)
    • Bledsoe
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bledsoe have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bledsoe
      • Bledsoe is located in Cochran County (TX)
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bledsoe <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Eagle Hill ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Eagle Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Eagle Hill, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Eagle Hill.

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 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 Eagle Hill:

Cemeteries Near Eagle Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Eagle Hill.

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

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

  • Eagle Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • New Hope Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Jenkins Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Richland Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Spillman Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Bluitt Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Perkins Memorial Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Perkins Memorial Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Perkins Memorial Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38322 <5>
  • Old Kenna Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Old Kenna Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Old Kenna Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<4> to the northwest of Kenna.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Kenna Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38294 <5>
  • Kenna Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kenna Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kenna Cemetery
  • Kenna Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Causey Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Causey Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<4> to the southeast of Causey.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Causey Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37987 <5>
  • Elida Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Elida Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Elida.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elida Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38045 <5>
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Longs Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Mt. Zion Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Zion Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the south of Dora.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Zion Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38257 <5>
    • Old New Hope Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old New Hope Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old New Hope Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38296 <5>

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

The official website for Roosevelt County: www.rooseveltcounty.com/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Eagle Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<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 from Point A (ie- Eagle Hill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Eagle Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.6573, Longitude: -103.4608       In this case, the coordinates for Eagle Hill 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>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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