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Introduction ...

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

We've added La Lande to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with La Lande, 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 Lande (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 Lande. 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 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 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 Lande is historic, it would have been located within present day DeBaca 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 DeBaca County: Chaves, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay & Roosevelt.

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

  • DeBaca County     (The home county of La Lande)
    • The following are listed by their distance from La Lande, with the one closest to La Lande listed first.
    • Fort Sumner
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Taiban
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Lake Sumner
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake Sumner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Sumner
      • Lake Sumner is located in DeBaca County
    • Yeso
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Curry County
    • Melrose
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Melrose have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose
      • Melrose is located in Curry County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 622 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Melrose <2>
  • Quay County
    • The following are listed by their distance from La Lande, with the one closest to La Lande listed first.
    • House
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • McAlister
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near La Lande ...

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

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

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

  • La Lande Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the La Lande Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the La Lande Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Old Ft. Sumner Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Ft. Sumner Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Taiban Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Taiban Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Taiban Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Tolar Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Trotter Gravesite
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Gerhardt Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Locust Grove Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Locust Grove Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Locust Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Blanco Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blanco Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Blanco Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lone Mesa Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lone Mesa Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lone Mesa Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38187 <5>
  • Ricardo Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ricardo Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ricardo Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Morris Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Morris Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Morris Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • House Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the House Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the House Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • House Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Guadalupe Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Guadalupe Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Guadalupe 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 La Lande. See our List of 1890's Communities around La Lande.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of La Lande ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around La Lande.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of La Lande. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of La Lande and those printed in the larger area surrounding La Lande.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4> of La Lande.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 La Lande:

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 La Lande, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- La Lande) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in La Lande. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.4481, Longitude: -104.1341       In this case, the coordinates for La Lande have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.




 

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