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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 McAlister (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 McAlister. 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 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.

McAlister is located in Quay 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 Quay County: Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Roosevelt, San Miguel, Union, Deaf Smith (TX), Hartley (TX) & Oldham (TX).

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

  • Quay County     (The home county of McAlister)
    • The following are listed by their distance from McAlister, with the one closest to McAlister listed first.
    • House
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Ragland
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragland
      • Ragland is located in Quay County
  • Curry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McAlister, with the one closest to McAlister listed first.
    • Weber City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weber City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weber City
      • Weber City is located in Curry County
    • Melrose
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Melrose have been provided by the GNIS.<2> 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 <1>
    • Saint Vrain
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Grady
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • DeBaca County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McAlister, with the one closest to McAlister listed first.
    • Taiban
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Fort Sumner
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in McAlister ...

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 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around McAlister.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of McAlister, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for McAlister.

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 professional and volunteer 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 McAlister:

Cemeteries Near McAlister ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of McAlister.

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

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

  • McAlister Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Yeakley Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Yeakley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yeakley Cemetery
  • Browning Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Prater Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • House Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Field Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Field Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Field Cemetery
  • House Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the House Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the House Cemetery
  • Beevers Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Hassell Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Roach Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Roach Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Roach Cemetery
  • Stockton Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Plain Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (23 more) ...
    • Lone Mesa Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lone Mesa Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lone Mesa Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38187 <4>
    • Trotter Gravesite
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • North Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the North Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Cemetery

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

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

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 '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- McAlister) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in McAlister. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6925, Longitude: -103.7765    
<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.




 

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