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Introduction ...

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

We've added Juan Tomas to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Juan Tomas, 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 Juan Tomas (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 Juan Tomas. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Juan Tomas is historic, it would have been located within present day Bernalillo 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 Bernalillo County: Cibola, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Torrance & Valencia.

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

  • Bernalillo County     (The home county of Juan Tomas)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Juan Tomas, with the one closest to Juan Tomas listed first.
    • Ponderosa Pine
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponderosa Pine
      • Ponderosa Pine is located in Bernalillo County
    • Cedar Crest
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Crest have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Crest
      • Cedar Crest is located in Bernalillo County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cedar Crest <3>
    • Tijeras
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tijeras have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tijeras
      • Tijeras is located in Bernalillo County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 534 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tijeras <3>
    • Canoncito
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canoncito
      • Canoncito is located in Bernalillo County
    • Monticello
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Sandia Knolls
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandia Knolls
      • Sandia Knolls is located in Bernalillo County
    • Carnuel
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carnuel have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carnuel
      • Carnuel is located in Bernalillo County
    • Sandia Park
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Chilili
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chilili have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chilili
      • Chilili is located in Bernalillo County
    • Canada Village
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Canada Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canada Village
      • Canada Village is located in Bernalillo County
    • Sandia Heights
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandia Heights
      • Sandia Heights is located in Bernalillo County
    • Mesa Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mesa Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Village
      • Mesa Village is located in Bernalillo County
    • Hoffmantown
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffmantown
      • Hoffmantown is located in Bernalillo County
  • Sandoval County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Juan Tomas, with the one closest to Juan Tomas listed first.
    • Diamond Tail Ranch
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond Tail Ranch
      • Diamond Tail Ranch is located in Sandoval County
    • Placitas
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Placitas have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placitas
      • Placitas is located in Sandoval County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Placitas <3>
    • Pueblo of Sandia Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pueblo of Sandia Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pueblo of Sandia Village
      • Pueblo of Sandia Village is located in Sandoval County
    • Bernalillo
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bernalillo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernalillo
      • Bernalillo is located in Sandoval County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,865 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bernalillo <3>
    • Algodones
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • San Felipe Pueblo
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for San Felipe Pueblo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Felipe Pueblo
      • San Felipe Pueblo is located in Sandoval County
  • Santa Fe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Juan Tomas, with the one closest to Juan Tomas listed first.
    • Edgewood
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cedar Grove
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
      • Cedar Grove is located in Santa Fe County
    • San Pedro
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for San Pedro. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pedro
      • San Pedro is located in Santa Fe County
    • Golden ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Golden. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden
      • Golden is located in Santa Fe County
    • Stanley
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Madrid
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Los Cerrillos
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Cerrillos
      • Los Cerrillos is located in Santa Fe County
      • Los Cerrillos has also been known as:
      • Cerrillos
  • Torrance County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Juan Tomas, with the one closest to Juan Tomas listed first.
    • Moriarty
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moriarty have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moriarty
      • Moriarty is located in Torrance County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,841 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moriarty <3>
    • McIntosh
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Tajique
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Torreon
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Torreon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreon
      • Torreon is located in Torrance County
    • Estancia
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Manzano
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manzano have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manzano
      • Manzano is located in Torrance County
  • Valencia County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Juan Tomas, with the one closest to Juan Tomas listed first.
    • Meadow Lake
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadow Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Lake
      • Meadow Lake is located in Valencia County
    • Bosque Farms
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bosque Farms have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosque Farms
      • Bosque Farms is located in Valencia County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,851 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bosque Farms <3>
    • Peralta
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Valencia
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Valencia have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valencia
      • Valencia is located in Valencia County
    • Los Lunas
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Tome
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Juan Tomas ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Juan Tomas.

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

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

  • Juan Tomas Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Juan Tomas Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Juan Tomas Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38145 <5>
  • Cedro Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cedro Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cedro Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37993 <5>
  • Mountain Valley Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • San Isidro de Labrador Mission Church Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • San Antonio Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Tijeras Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Escabosa Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Escabosa Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Escabosa Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38052 <5>
  • Canoncito Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • San Antonito Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Carnuel Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Carnuel Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Carnuel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Santo Nino Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Chilili Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chilili Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chilili Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Chilili Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Gardner Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38002 <5>
  • Continue List   (65 more) ...
    • St. John Nepomucene Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Chilili New Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chilili New Cemetery
      • The Chilili New Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Cath Cemetery
      • Garland Cemetery
      • St. John Nepomucene Cemetery
      • San Juan Nepomoceno Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38080 <5>
    • Cedar Grove Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cedar Grove Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cedar Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37989 <5>

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 Juan Tomas in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Juan Tomas.

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

  • San Pedro
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for San Pedro. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pedro
    • San Pedro is located in Santa Fe County
  • Golden ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Golden. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden
    • Golden is located in Santa Fe County
  • Albuquerque
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Alameda
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Barr
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Barr have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barr
    • Barr is located in Bernalillo County
  • Ortiz ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ortiz have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ortiz
    • Ortiz is located in Santa Fe County
  • Corrales
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Pajarito ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pajarito have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pajarito
    • Pajarito is located in Bernalillo County
  • Isleta
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
  • Peralta
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Los Lunas
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Los Cerrillos
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Cerrillos
    • Los Cerrillos is located in Santa Fe County
    • Los Cerrillos has also been known as:
    • Cerrillos

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

Newspapers Published in Juan Tomas ...

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 187 newspapers that have been published in the area around Juan Tomas.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Juan Tomas, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Juan Tomas.

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 Juan Tomas:

The official website for Bernalillo County: www.bernco.gov/

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

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 Juan Tomas, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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.
<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- Juan Tomas) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Juan Tomas. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0270, Longitude: -106.2984       In this case, the coordinates for Juan Tomas have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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