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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 Hargis (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 Hargis. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Hargis is located in Quay 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 Quay County: Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Roosevelt, San Miguel, Union, Deaf Smith (TX), Hartley (TX) & Oldham (TX).

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

  • Quay County     (The home county of Hargis)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hargis, with the one closest to Hargis listed first.
    • Tucumcari
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Lesbia ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lesbia. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lesbia
      • Lesbia is located in Quay County
    • Ragland
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragland
      • Ragland is located in Quay County
    • Cummings Place
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings Place
      • Cummings Place is located in Quay County
    • San Jon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Logan
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Guadalupe County
  • San Miguel County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hargis, with the one closest to Hargis listed first.
    • Conchas
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Hooverville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooverville
      • Hooverville is located in San Miguel County

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

Cemeteries Near Hargis ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hargis.

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

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

  • Tucumcari Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tucumcari Memorial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Tucumcari Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Tucumcari.
    • The Tucumcari Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Memorial Park Cemetery
    • Sunnyside Cemetery
    • Tucumcari Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38492 <3>
  • Dodson Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Apodaca Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Apodaca Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Apodaca Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37943 <3>
  • Newhome Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Newhome Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Newhome Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38275 <3>
  • Montoya Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • West Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the West Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the West Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38509 <3>
  • Hudson Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Norton Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Norton Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Norton Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2498410 <3>
  • San Lorenzo Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Puerto Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Bryantine Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bryantine Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bryantine Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37967 <3>
  • Prater Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Hargis ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hargis.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hargis, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hargis.

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 Hargis:

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

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

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>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.
<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>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.
<5>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- Hargis) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hargis. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1462, Longitude: -103.8164       In this case, the coordinates for Hargis have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 28 Apr 2025