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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 Joe Yarbrough (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 Joe Yarbrough. 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 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 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.

Joe Yarbrough is located in Hidalgo 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 Hidalgo County: Cochise (AZ), Greenlee (AZ), Grant & Luna.

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

  • Hidalgo County     (The home county of Joe Yarbrough)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Joe Yarbrough, with the one closest to Joe Yarbrough listed first.
    • Gibson
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Gibson. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
      • Gibson is located in Hidalgo County
    • Rodeo
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Cloverdale ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
      • Cloverdale is located in Hidalgo County
    • Animas
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Windmill
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windmill
      • Windmill is located in Hidalgo County
    • Alamo Hueco
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo Hueco
      • Alamo Hueco is located in Hidalgo County
    • Cotton City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cotton City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton City
      • Cotton City is located in Hidalgo County
  • Grant County
    • Old Hachita ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Hachita
      • Old Hachita is located in Grant County
  • Socorro County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Joe Yarbrough, with the one closest to Joe Yarbrough listed first.
    • Bramlett ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramlett
      • Bramlett is located in Socorro County
    • Garcia
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia
      • Garcia is located in Socorro County
  • Cochise County (AZ)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Joe Yarbrough, with the one closest to Joe Yarbrough listed first.
    • Apache
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apache
      • Apache is located in Cochise County (AZ)
    • Portal
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Paradise
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
      • Paradise is located in Cochise County (AZ)

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

Cemeteries Near Joe Yarbrough ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Joe Yarbrough.

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

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

  • Middle Animas Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Rodeo Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rodeo Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Rodeo Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Rodeo.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2144971 <4>
  • Apache Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Cloverdale Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Cottonwood Creek Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Busy Bee Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Busy Bee Cemetery
    • The Busy Bee Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Animas LDS Cemetery
    • Animas LDS Cemetery
    • Cotton City LDS Cemetery
    • Cotton City LDS Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2454001 <4>
  • Paradise Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Paradise Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Paradise Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Joe Yarbrough ...

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 Joe Yarbrough.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Joe Yarbrough, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Joe Yarbrough.

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 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 Joe Yarbrough:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Joe Yarbrough. 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>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.
<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 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.
<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>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- Joe Yarbrough) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Joe Yarbrough. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.6662, Longitude: -108.8323       In this case, the coordinates for Joe Yarbrough have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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