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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 North Lucy (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 North Lucy. 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 North Lucy ...

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 North Lucy: N. Lucy

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

North Lucy is located in Torrance 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 Torrance County: Bernalillo, Guadalupe, Lincoln, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Socorro & Valencia.

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

  • Torrance County     (The home county of North Lucy)
    • The following are listed by their distance from North Lucy, with the one closest to North Lucy listed first.
    • Clines Corners
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Encino
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • McIntosh
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Estancia
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Moriarty
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moriarty have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moriarty
      • Moriarty is located in Torrance County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,841 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moriarty <1>
  • Guadalupe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from North Lucy, with the one closest to North Lucy listed first.
    • Dahlia
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Dahlia. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dahlia
      • Dahlia is located in Guadalupe County
    • Vaughn
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • San Miguel County
  • Santa Fe County

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

Cemeteries Near North Lucy ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of North Lucy.

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

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

  • Red Hills Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Negra Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Guadalupe Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Guadalupe Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Guadalupe Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Encino.
    • The Guadalupe Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Encino Catholic Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38096 <4>
  • Encino Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Encino Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Encino Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Encino.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38047 <4>
  • Tapia Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Lucy Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • San Juan Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the San Juan Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the San Juan Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the San Juan Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<5> to the north of Villanueva.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38416 <4>
  • Sombrio Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sombrio Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sombrio Cemetery is located 19 miles [30.6 km]<5> to the south of Vaughn.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38459 <4>
  • Santo Nino de Atocha Church Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • McIntosh Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McIntosh Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McIntosh Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38220 <4>
  • San Isidro De Labador Church Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Pinos Wells Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Pinos Wells Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Mt. Carmel Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Carmel Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Carmel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Mt. View Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. View Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> 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 North Lucy. See our List of 1890's Communities around North Lucy.

Newspapers Published in North Lucy ...

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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around North Lucy.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of North Lucy, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for North Lucy.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 North Lucy:

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

The official website for Torrance County: www.torrancecountynm.org/

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>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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- North Lucy) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in North Lucy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8573, Longitude: -105.5811       In this case, the coordinates for North Lucy have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 28 Apr 2025