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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 East Davis 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 East Davis 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.

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 doctors 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.

East Davis 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 East Davis Place. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to East Davis Place:

  • Torrance County     (The home county of East Davis Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from East Davis Place, with the one closest to East Davis Place listed first.
    • McIntosh
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Moriarty
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Estancia
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Tajique
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Torreon
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Torreon is located in Torrance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreon
    • Willard
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Manzano
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Manzano is located in Torrance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manzano
    • Clines Corners
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Mountainair
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Bernalillo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from East Davis Place, with the one closest to East Davis Place listed first.
    • Chilili
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Chilili is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chilili
    • Ponderosa Pine
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Ponderosa Pine is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponderosa Pine
    • Cedar Crest
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Tijeras
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Sandia Knolls
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Sandia Knolls is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandia Knolls
    • Canoncito
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Canoncito is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canoncito
    • Monticello
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Carnuel
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Carnuel is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carnuel
    • Sandia Park
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Canada Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Canada Village is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canada Village
    • Mesa Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Mesa Village is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Village
    • Hoffmantown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Hoffmantown is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffmantown
    • Sandia Heights
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Sandia Heights is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandia Heights
  • Santa Fe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from East Davis Place, with the one closest to East Davis Place listed first.
    • Edgewood
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Stanley
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Cedar Grove
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Cedar Grove is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
    • San Pedro
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • San Pedro is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pedro
    • Golden ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Golden is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden
  • Valencia County
    • Meadow Lake
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • 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 East Davis Place, see our County-by-County Page for East Davis Place.

Cemeteries Near East Davis Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of East Davis 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 East Davis Place - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • McIntosh Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Mt. Carmel Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Mt. View Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Chilili New Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chilili New Cemetery
    • The Chilili New Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cath Cemetery
    • Garland Cemetery
    • St. John Nepomucene Cemetery
    • San Juan Nepomoceno Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38080 <2>
  • Chilili Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • St. John Nepomucene Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Garland Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Estancia Memorial Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estancia Memorial Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Estancia Memorial Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the southwest of Estancia.
    • The Estancia Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Estancia Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38055 <2>
  • Escabosa Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Mountain Valley Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (42 more) ...

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 East Davis Place in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of East Davis Place.

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

  • San Pedro
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • San Pedro is located in Santa Fe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pedro
  • Golden ‑ Historic
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Golden is located in Santa Fe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden
  • Ortiz ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Ortiz is located in Santa Fe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ortiz

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

Newspapers Published in East Davis 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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around East Davis Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of East Davis 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 East Davis 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 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 East Davis 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- East Davis 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 East Davis Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.