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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 Lovington (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 Lovington. 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 northwest 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 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 west 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.

Lovington is located in Lea County and is the County Seat.

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 Lea County: Chaves, Eddy, Roosevelt, Andrews (TX), Cochran (TX), Gaines (TX), Loving (TX), Winkler (TX) & Yoakum (TX).

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

  • Lea County     (The home county of Lovington)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lovington, with the one closest to Lovington listed first.
    • Hillburn City
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hillburn City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillburn City
      • Hillburn City is located in Lea County
    • Humble City
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Humble City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humble City
      • Humble City is located in Lea County
    • McDonald
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Air Base City
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Air Base City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Air Base City
      • Air Base City is located in Lea County
    • Arkansas Junction
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkansas Junction
      • Arkansas Junction is located in Lea County
    • Hobbs
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Tatum
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Monument
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Gladiola ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladiola
      • Gladiola is located in Lea County
    • Maljamar
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Bronco
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bronco. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bronco
      • Bronco is located in Lea County
  • Gaines County (TX)
    • Denver City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Yoakum County (TX)
    • Bronco
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bronco. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bronco
      • Bronco is located in Yoakum County (TX)

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

Cemeteries Near Lovington ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lovington.

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

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

  • Lovington Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lovington Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lovington Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Resthaven Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the 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>
  • Cox Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cox Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cox Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Old Plainview Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Plainview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Plainview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Knowles Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Knowles Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Knowles Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • King Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the King Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the King Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<5> to the northwest of Tatum.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38152 <4>
  • Boone Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boone Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Boone Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<5> to the south of Hobbs.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2208620 <4>
  • Memdry Gardens
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Memdry Gardens
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Memdry Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Memorial Park
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Memorial Park
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Tatum Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tatum Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Tatum Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Tatum.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1083266 <4>
  • Crockett Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crockett Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Crockett Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Morgan Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Morgan Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Morgan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Prairie Haven Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie Haven Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Prairie Haven Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Murphys Chapel Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Murphys Chapel Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Murphys Chapel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 Lovington. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lovington.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Lovington ...

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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lovington.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Lovington. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Lovington and those printed in the larger area surrounding Lovington.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<5> of Lovington.

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 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 Lovington:

The official website for Lovington: www.lovington.leaco.net/

The official website for Lea County: www.leacounty.net/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Lovington) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lovington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.9457, Longitude: -103.3505       In this case, the coordinates for Lovington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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