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Introduction ...

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

We've added New Hope to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with New Hope, 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 New Hope (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 New Hope. 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 hospitals and 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 New Hope 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 New Hope. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to New Hope:

  • Roosevelt County     (The home county of New Hope)
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Hope, with the one closest to New Hope listed first.
    • Milnesand
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Dora
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • 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>
    • Causey
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Rogers
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Rogers is located in Roosevelt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogers
    • Elida
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • 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>
    • Kenna
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Kenna is located in Roosevelt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenna
    • Arch
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Arch is located in Roosevelt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • Portales
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Lea County
  • Bailey County (TX)
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Hope, with the one closest to New Hope listed first.
    • Maple
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Stegall
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Stegall is located in Bailey County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stegall
  • Cochran County (TX)
    • Bledsoe
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near New Hope ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of New Hope.

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 New Hope - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • New Hope Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Richland Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • 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>
  • Eagle Hill Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Longs Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • 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>
  • Causey Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • 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>
  • Mt. Zion Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • 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>
  • Bluitt Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Perkins Memorial Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Spillman Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Jenkins Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Inez Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 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>
  • Elida Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elida Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Elida Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Elida.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38045 <4>
  • Continue List   (10 more) ...
    • Old Kenna Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Kenna Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Kenna Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenna Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Kenna Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the south of Kenna.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38150 <4>

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

Newspapers Published in New Hope ...

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 New Hope.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of New Hope, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for New Hope.

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 New Hope:

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 New Hope, 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 '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- New Hope) 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.