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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 Fence Lake (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 Fence Lake. 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 Fence Lake ...

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 Fence Lake: Fence Lk.

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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Fence Lake is located in Cibola 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 Cibola County: Apache (AZ), Bernalillo, Catron, McKinley, Sandoval, Socorro & Valencia.

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

  • Cibola County     (The home county of Fence Lake)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fence Lake, with the one closest to Fence Lake listed first.
    • Hogg Place ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogg Place
      • Hogg Place is located in Cibola County
    • Pinehill
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pinehill have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinehill
      • Pinehill is located in Cibola County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pinehill <2>
  • Catron County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fence Lake, with the one closest to Fence Lake listed first.
    • Quemado
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Omega
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omega
      • Omega is located in Catron County
  • McKinley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fence Lake, with the one closest to Fence Lake listed first.
    • Black Rock
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Black Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Rock
      • Black Rock is located in McKinley County
    • Zuni Pueblo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Zuni Pueblo have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zuni Pueblo
      • Zuni Pueblo is located in McKinley County

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Fence Lake ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fence Lake.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Fence Lake. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Fence Lake and those printed in the larger area surrounding Fence Lake.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 23 miles [37 km]<3> of Fence Lake.

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 Fence Lake:

Cemeteries Near Fence Lake ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fence Lake.

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

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

  • Atarque Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Atarque Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Atarque Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37946 <4>
  • Morelos Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Morelos Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Morelos Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38245 <4>
  • Mares Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Quemado Community Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Forest Hill Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fence Lake) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fence Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6535, Longitude: -108.6776    
<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.









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024