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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 Little Water (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 Little Water. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Little Water is located in San Juan 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 Juan County: Apache (AZ), Archuleta (CO), La Plata (CO), Montezuma (CO), McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval & San Juan (UT).

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

  • San Juan County     (The home county of Little Water)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Water, with the one closest to Little Water listed first.
    • Sanostee
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Newcomb
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Newcomb have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newcomb
      • Newcomb is located in San Juan County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Newcomb <1>
    • Toadlena
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toadlena
      • Toadlena is located in San Juan County
    • Sheep Springs
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Shiprock
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Nenahnezad
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nenahnezad have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nenahnezad
      • Nenahnezad is located in San Juan County
    • Ojo Amarillo
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ojo Amarillo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ojo Amarillo
      • Ojo Amarillo is located in San Juan County
    • Naschitti
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Naschitti have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naschitti
      • Naschitti is located in San Juan County
    • Fruitland
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Kirtland
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kirtland have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirtland
      • Kirtland is located in San Juan County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kirtland <1>
    • Upper Fruitland
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Fruitland
      • Upper Fruitland is located in San Juan County
    • Crystal
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
      • Crystal is located in San Juan County
  • Apache County (AZ)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Water, with the one closest to Little Water listed first.
    • Red Rock
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Rock
      • Red Rock is located in Apache County (AZ)
    • Red Valley
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Valley
      • Red Valley is located in Apache County (AZ)
    • Wheatfields
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatfields
      • Wheatfields is located in Apache County (AZ)
    • Sehili
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sehili
      • Sehili is located in Apache County (AZ)
    • Lukachukai
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Tsaile
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Little Water ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Little Water.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Little Water, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Little Water.

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 Little Water:

Cemeteries Near Little Water ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Little Water.

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

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

  • Shiprock Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Waterflow Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Waterflow Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Waterflow Cemetery
  • Jewett Valley Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Kirtland Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kirtland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kirtland Cemetery
  • Cove Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Cove Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cove Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1997686 <4>
  • Lukachukai Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Lukachukai Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lukachukai Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Lukachukai (AZ).
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lukachukai Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1976389 <4>

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.<6>

While we didn't find Little Water in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Little Water.

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Little Water. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for San Juan County: www.co.san-juan.nm.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Little Water) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Little Water. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.4464, Longitude: -108.7248       In this case, the coordinates for Little Water have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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>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 Little Water, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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