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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 Navarre Place (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 Navarre Place. 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.

Name Variations for Navarre Place ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Navarre Place: Navarre Pl. (or less commonly used: Navarre Plc.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 and hospitals 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.

Navarre Place is located in McKinley 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 McKinley County: Apache (AZ), Cibola, San Juan & Sandoval.

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

  • McKinley County     (The home county of Navarre Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Navarre Place, with the one closest to Navarre Place listed first.
    • Continental Divide
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Fort Wingate
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Bread Springs
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bread Springs
      • Bread Springs is located in McKinley County
    • Ramah
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ramah have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramah
      • Ramah is located in McKinley County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ramah <1>
    • Thoreau
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Church Rock
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Navajo Wingate Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Navajo Wingate Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo Wingate Village
      • Navajo Wingate Village is located in McKinley County
    • Vanderwagen
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Rehoboth
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Red Rock
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Rock
      • Red Rock is located in McKinley County
    • Gallup
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup
      • Gallup is located in McKinley County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 21,253 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gallup <1>
    • Smith Lake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Prewitt
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Cibola County
    • Pinehill
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pinehill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinehill
      • Pinehill is located in Cibola County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pinehill <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Navarre Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Navarre Place.

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

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

  • McGaffey Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McGaffey Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McGaffey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38219 <3>
  • Torreon Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Torreon Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Torreon Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38487 <3>
  • Mormon Colony Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mormon Colony Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mormon Colony Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38247 <3>
  • Ramah Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Pinehaven Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Tinaja Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tinaja Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tinaja Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38481 <3>
  • Hillcrest Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • El Morro Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Gallup City Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gallup City Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gallup City Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<5> to the east of Gallup.
  • Sunset Memorial Gardens
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Pioneer Memorial Park
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Navarre Place ...

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 36 newspapers that have been published in the area around Navarre Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Navarre Place, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Navarre Place.

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 Navarre Place:

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

The official website for McKinley County: www.co.mckinley.nm.us/

The official website for State of New Mexico: https://www.nm.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>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.
<4>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Navarre Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Navarre Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3236, Longitude: -108.4554       In this case, the coordinates for Navarre Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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