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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 Pennington (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 Pennington. 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 hospitals and doctors 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.

Pennington is located in Union 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 Union County: Baca (CO), Las Animas (CO), Colfax, Harding, Quay, Cimarron (OK), Dallam (TX) & Hartley (TX).

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

  • Union County     (The home county of Pennington)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pennington, with the one closest to Pennington listed first.
    • Mount Dora
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Gladstone
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Grenville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grenville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grenville
      • Grenville is located in Union County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 29 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grenville <1>
    • Clayton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Sedan
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Pennington ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pennington.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pennington, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pennington.

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 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 Pennington:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

Cemeteries Near Pennington ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pennington.

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

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

  • Dempsey Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dempsey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dempsey Cemetery
  • La Morada Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the La Morada Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the La Morada Cemetery
  • Sanchez Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sanchez Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sanchez Cemetery
  • Ojo Bonito Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ojo Bonito Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ojo Bonito Cemetery
  • Garcia Plaza Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Garcia Plaza Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Garcia Plaza Cemetery
  • Otto Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Otto Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Otto Cemetery
  • Sofia Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sofia Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sofia Cemetery
  • Antioch Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Antioch Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Antioch Cemetery
  • Gladstone Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gladstone Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gladstone Cemetery
  • Thomas Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Thomas Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thomas Cemetery
  • Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Pedernal Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Pedernal Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pedernal Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38317 <4>
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Pedernal Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pedernal Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pedernal Cemetery
    • Mofax Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Maytum Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Pennington. 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pennington) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pennington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3053, Longitude: -103.6333       In this case, the coordinates for Pennington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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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