Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Knowles. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Knowles to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Knowles, 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 Knowles (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 Knowles. 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Knowles is historic, it would have been located within present day Lea County.
To see how the shape of New Mexico's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lea County: Chaves, Eddy, Roosevelt, Andrews (TX), Cochran (TX), Gaines (TX), Loving (TX), Winkler (TX) & Yoakum (TX).
Below are the counties that are near Knowles. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Knowles:
- Lea County (The home county of Knowles)
- The following are listed by their distance from Knowles, with the one closest to Knowles listed first.
- Air Base City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Air Base City is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Air Base City
- Humble City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Humble City is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humble City
- Hobbs
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Lovington
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Arkansas Junction
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
- Monument
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hillburn City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Hillburn City is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillburn City
- McDonald
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Jones City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Jones City is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
- Eunice
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Gladiola ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Gladiola is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladiola
- Bronco
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Bronco is located in Lea County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bronco
- Tatum
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Gaines County (TX)
- The following are listed by their distance from Knowles, with the one closest to Knowles listed first.
- Denver City
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Seminole
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Yoakum County (TX)
- The following are listed by their distance from Knowles, with the one closest to Knowles listed first.
- Bronco
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Bronco is located in Yoakum County (TX)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bronco
- Plains
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Knowles, see our County-by-County Page for Knowles.
Cemeteries Near Knowles ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Knowles.
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.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Knowles - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Knowles covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Knowles, with the one closest to Knowles listed first.
- Knowles Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Memdry Gardens
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Boone Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boone Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Boone Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the north of Hobbs.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2208620 <4>
- Memorial Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Everglades Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Prairie Haven Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Resthaven Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Resthaven Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Resthaven Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Lovington.
- The Resthaven Cemetery has also been known as:
- Rest Haven Gardens
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38358 <4>
- Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Lovington Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Monument Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Denver City Memorial Park
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Cox Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (12 more) ...
- Old Plainview Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- King Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for King Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the King Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> to the southeast of Tatum.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38152 <4>
- Crockett Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Knowles. See our List of 1890's Communities around Knowles.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Knowles ...
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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around Knowles.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Knowles. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Knowles and those printed in the larger area surrounding Knowles.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Knowles.
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 Knowles:
- Websites specific to New Mexico
- Pages specific to Lea County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Gaines County
- Yoakum County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for New Mexico
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 Knowles, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Knowles) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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. |