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Introduction ...

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

We've added Faywood to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Faywood, 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 Faywood (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 Faywood. 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 and 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Faywood is historic, it would have been located within present day Grant 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 Grant County: Greenlee (AZ), Catron, Hidalgo, Luna & Sierra.

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

  • Grant County     (The home county of Faywood)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Faywood, with the one closest to Faywood listed first.
    • Hurley
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hurley have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurley
      • Hurley is located in Grant County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,175 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hurley <3>
    • Bayard
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bayard have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayard
      • Bayard is located in Grant County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,117 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bayard <3>
    • Cobre
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobre
      • Cobre is located in Grant County
    • Vanadium
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanadium
      • Vanadium is located in Grant County
    • Central
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Central have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central
      • Central is located in Grant County
    • Santa Clara
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santa Clara have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Clara
      • Santa Clara is located in Grant County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,761 people
    • Hanover
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanover
      • Hanover is located in Grant County
    • Santa Rita ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santa Rita have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Rita
      • Santa Rita is located in Grant County
    • Fort Bayard
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Arenas Valley
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arenas Valley
      • Arenas Valley is located in Grant County
    • Mimbres
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Silver City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Luna County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Faywood, with the one closest to Faywood listed first.
    • Old Town
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Town have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
      • Old Town is located in Luna County
    • Deming
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • San Miguel County
  • Sierra County
    • Lake Valley ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Valley
      • Lake Valley is located in Sierra County

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

Newspapers Published in Faywood ...

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 42 newspapers that have been published in the area around Faywood.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Faywood, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Faywood.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Faywood:

Cemeteries Near Faywood ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Faywood.

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

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

  • Hurley Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hurley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hurley Cemetery
  • Vanadium Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Cemetery #5
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cemetery #5 have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cemetery #5
  • Hanover Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Ft. Bayard National Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Cooks Peak Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Cooks Peak Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cooks Peak Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38010 <6>
  • Ft. Bayard / New Mexico Memorial Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Cemetery #4
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cemetery #4 have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cemetery #4
  • Georgetown Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Georgetown Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Georgetown Cemetery
  • Fierro Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fierro Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fierro Cemetery
  • Memory Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Memory Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Memory Cemetery
  • Desert Lawn Memorial Gardens
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Holy Cross Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Ft. Cummings Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Hicks Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hicks Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hicks 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.

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

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

  • Whitewater
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whitewater have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitewater
    • Whitewater is located in Grant County
  • Central
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Central have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central
    • Central is located in Grant County
  • Hanover
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanover
    • Hanover is located in Grant County
  • Fort Bayard
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Santa Rita ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santa Rita have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Rita
    • Santa Rita is located in Grant County
  • Mimbres
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Silver City
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Pinos Altos ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinos Altos
    • Pinos Altos is located in Grant County
  • Wilna
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wilna have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilna
    • Wilna is located in Grant County
  • Lake Valley ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Valley
    • Lake Valley is located in Sierra County

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

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 Faywood, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Faywood) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Faywood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.5642, Longitude: -108.0242       In this case, the coordinates for Faywood have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.
<6>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.




 

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