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Introduction ...

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

We've added Gamerco to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Gamerco, 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 Gamerco (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 Gamerco. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Gamerco is historic, it would have been located within present day McKinley 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 McKinley County: Apache (AZ), Cibola, San Juan & Sandoval.

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

  • McKinley County     (The home county of Gamerco)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gamerco, with the one closest to Gamerco listed first.
    • Yah-ta-hey
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Yah-ta-hey is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yah-ta-hey
    • Gallup
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Gallup is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 21,253 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gallup <2>
    • Rock Springs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Rock Springs is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Springs
    • Rehoboth
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Red Rock
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Red Rock is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Rock
    • Church Rock
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Navajo Wingate Village
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Twin Lakes
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Twin Lakes is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes
    • Defiance
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Defiance is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Defiance
    • Bread Springs
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Bread Springs is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bread Springs
    • Fort Wingate
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Brimhall Nizhoni
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Brimhall Nizhoni is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brimhall Nizhoni
  • Apache County (AZ)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gamerco, with the one closest to Gamerco listed first.
    • Window Rock
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Hunters Point
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Hunters Point is located in Apache County (AZ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Point
    • Saint Michaels
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Fort Defiance
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Oak Springs
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Oak Springs is located in Apache County (AZ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Springs
    • Lupton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Allentown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Allentown is located in Apache County (AZ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allentown

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

Cemeteries Near Gamerco ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gamerco.

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 Gamerco - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

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

  • Fort Defiance
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Allentown
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Allentown is located in Apache County (AZ)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allentown

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

Newspapers Published in Gamerco ...

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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gamerco.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Gamerco, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Gamerco.

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 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 Gamerco:

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 Gamerco, 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 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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Gamerco) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.