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Introduction ...

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

We've added La Cinta to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with La Cinta, 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 La Cinta (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 La Cinta. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Although our information shows that the community of La Cinta is historic, it would have been located within present day San Miguel 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 San Miguel County: Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay, Santa Fe & Torrance.

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

  • San Miguel County     (The home county of La Cinta)
    • The following are listed by their distance from La Cinta, with the one closest to La Cinta listed first.
    • Conchas
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Hooverville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooverville
      • Hooverville is located in San Miguel County
    • Trementina ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trementina have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trementina
      • Trementina is located in San Miguel County
  • Guadalupe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from La Cinta, with the one closest to La Cinta listed first.
    • Newkirk
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Cuervo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Harding County
    • The following are listed by their distance from La Cinta, with the one closest to La Cinta listed first.
    • Mosquero
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Solano
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Quay County
    • Tucumcari
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in La Cinta ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around La Cinta.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of La Cinta, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for La Cinta.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 La Cinta:

Cemeteries Near La Cinta ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of La Cinta.

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

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

  • La Cinta Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the La Cinta Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the La Cinta Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38159 <6>
  • San Lorenzo Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Alamosa Plaza Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Alamosa Plaza Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alamosa Plaza Cemetery
  • Trementina Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Montoya Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Sena Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Monte Calvario Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Bryantine Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bryantine Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bryantine Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37967 <6>
  • Newkirk Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Mosquero Creek Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Canon Largo Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Sagrado Corazon Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Sagrado Corazon Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sagrado Corazon Cemetery is located 36 miles [57.9 km]<4> to the west of Las Vegas.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sagrado Corazon Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38377 <6>
    • Tucumcari Memorial Park
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • 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 our Gazetteer entry for the Tucumcari Memorial Park
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38492 <6>
    • Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

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

The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.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 La Cinta, 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>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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- La Cinta) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in La Cinta. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.4109, Longitude: -104.1316       In this case, the coordinates for La Cinta have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.
<6>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.




 

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