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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 Hendricks Place (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 Hendricks Place. 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 Hendricks Place ...

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.

  • A typical abbreviation for Hendricks Place: Hendricks Pl. (or less commonly used: Hendricks Plc.)
  • While the name of this community is Hendricks Place, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Hendricks Place may originally have been Hendrick's Place.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Hendricks Place might be written as Hendrick Place.

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 northwest 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 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.

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

  • Quay County     (The home county of Hendricks Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hendricks Place, with the one closest to Hendricks Place listed first.
    • Logan
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Cummings Place
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings Place
      • Cummings Place is located in Quay County
    • Lesbia ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • 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.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lesbia
      • Lesbia is located in Quay County
    • Tucumcari
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • San Jon
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Glenrio ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Glenrio. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenrio
      • Glenrio is located in Quay County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Glenrio <2>
    • Nara Visa
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Deaf Smith County (TX)
    • Glenrio ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Glenrio. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenrio
      • Glenrio is located in Deaf Smith County (TX)

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

Cemeteries Near Hendricks Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hendricks Place.

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

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

  • Vigil Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Hudson Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Logan Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Alamosa Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alamosa Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Alamosa Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37935 <4>
  • Anniston Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Bryantine Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • 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.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37967 <4>
  • Newhome Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • 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.<3>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38275 <4>
  • Tucumcari Memorial Park
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • 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 <4>
  • San Jon Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the San Jon Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the San Jon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the San Jon Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in San Jon.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38408 <4>
  • Obar Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Bard Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Apodaca Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • 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.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37943 <4>
    • Norton Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • 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.<3>
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2498410 <4>

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.<7>

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

  • Endee ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Endee have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Endee
    • Endee is located in Quay County

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

Newspapers Published in Hendricks Place ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hendricks Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hendricks Place, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hendricks Place.

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 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 Hendricks Place:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Hendricks Place. 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>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<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.
<5>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.
<6>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Hendricks Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hendricks Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3378, Longitude: -103.4988       In this case, the coordinates for Hendricks Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>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 Hendricks Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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