Our Genealogy Helper

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 Quemado (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 Quemado. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Quemado is located in Catron 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 Catron County: Apache (AZ), Greenlee (AZ), Cibola, Grant, Sierra & Socorro.

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

• Catron County     (The home county of Quemado)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Quemado, with the one closest to Quemado listed first.
  • Omega
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omega
    • Omega is located in Catron County
  • Pie Town
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pie Town
    • Pie Town is located in Catron County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pie Town <1>
• Cibola County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Quemado, with the one closest to Quemado listed first.
  • Fence Lake
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fence Lake
    • Fence Lake is located in Cibola County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fence Lake <1>
  • Hogg Place ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogg Place
    • Hogg Place is located in Cibola County

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Quemado ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Quemado.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Quemado. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Quemado and those printed in the larger area surrounding Quemado.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 23 miles [37 km]<2> of Quemado.

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 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 Quemado:

• Websites specific to New Mexico
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the State Records Center and Archives

• Pages specific to Catron County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Cibola County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for New Mexico
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cemeteries of Catron County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cemeteries of Catron County

Cemeteries Near Quemado ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Quemado.

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

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

• Quemado Community Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • The Quemado Community Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Quemado Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Quemado Community Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38347 <3>
• Forest Hill Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • The Forest Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Taylor Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forest Hill Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38069 <3>
• Mangas Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mangas Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mangas Cemetery
• Johnson Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Johnson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johnson Cemetery
• Juniper Haven Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Juniper Haven Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • The Juniper Haven Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Pie Town Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Juniper Haven Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38323 <3>
• Divide Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Divide Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Divide Cemetery
• Morelos Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Morelos Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Morelos Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38245 <3>
• Tres Lagunas Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tres Lagunas Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38490 <3>
• Greens Gap Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Greens Gap Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greens Gap Cemetery
• Atarque Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Atarque Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Atarque Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37946 <3>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.gov/