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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 Hassell (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 Hassell. 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.

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

  • Quay County     (The home county of Hassell)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hassell, with the one closest to Hassell listed first.
    • House
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • McAlister
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Ragland
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragland
      • Ragland is located in Quay County
  • Curry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hassell, with the one closest to Hassell listed first.
    • Weber City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weber City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weber City
      • Weber City is located in Curry County
    • Melrose
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Melrose have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose
      • Melrose is located in Curry County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 622 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Melrose <1>
  • DeBaca County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hassell, with the one closest to Hassell listed first.
    • Taiban
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Fort Sumner
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Lake Sumner
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake Sumner have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Sumner
      • Lake Sumner is located in DeBaca County
  • Guadalupe County

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

Cemeteries Near Hassell ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hassell.

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

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

  • Hassell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • House Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the House Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the House Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lone Mesa Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lone Mesa Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lone Mesa Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38187 <3>
  • House Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Gerhardt Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Ima Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Locust Grove Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Locust Grove Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Locust Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Browning Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • McAlister Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • West Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • 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.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38509 <3>
  • Ruth Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Alamo Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alamo Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Alamo Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37934 <3>
  • Continue List   (27 more) ...
    • Taiban Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Taiban Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Taiban Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • La Lande Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the La Lande Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the La Lande Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Trotter Gravesite
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Hassell ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hassell.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hassell, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hassell.

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 websites either 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 Hassell:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Hassell. 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>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>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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hassell) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hassell. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7067, Longitude: -104.0236       In this case, the coordinates for Hassell have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 28 Apr 2025