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Introduction ...

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

We've added Longs to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Longs, 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 Longs (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 Longs. 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 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 Longs is historic, it would have been located within present day Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt County: Chaves, Curry, Lea, Quay, Bailey (TX) & Cochran (TX).

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

  • Roosevelt County     (The home county of Longs)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Longs, with the one closest to Longs listed first.
    • Rogers
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Rogers is located in Roosevelt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogers
    • Causey
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Dora
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Dora is located in Roosevelt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 118 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dora <2>
    • Arch
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Arch is located in Roosevelt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • Portales
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Milnesand
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Elida
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Elida is located in Roosevelt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elida
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elida <2>
    • Floyd
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Floyd is located in Roosevelt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floyd
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 103 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Floyd <2>
  • Lea County
  • Bailey County (TX)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Longs, with the one closest to Longs listed first.
    • Stegall
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Stegall is located in Bailey County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stegall
    • Maple
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Enochs
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Cochran County (TX)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Longs, with the one closest to Longs listed first.
    • Bledsoe
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Morton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Morton is located in Cochran County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,840 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Morton <2>

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

Cemeteries Near Longs ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Longs.

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 Longs - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Longs covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Longs Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longs Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Longs Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<3> to the northwest of Causey.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38189 <4>
  • Inez Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inez Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Inez Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<3> to the east of Rogers.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38132 <4>
  • Causey Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Causey Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Causey Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the southwest of Causey.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37987 <4>
  • Richland Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Richland Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> to the south of Dora.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38362 <4>
  • Mt. Zion Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Zion Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Zion Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the north of Dora.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38257 <4>
  • New Hope Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Arch Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Eiland Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eiland Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Eiland Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the west of Arch.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38037 <4>
  • Rest Lawn Memorial Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Maple Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Portales Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Bluitt Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Longs ...

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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Longs.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Longs, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Longs.

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 Longs:

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 Longs, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Longs) 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.