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Introduction ...

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

We've added Richland to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Richland, 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 Richland (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 Richland. 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 doctors and 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Richland 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 Richland. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Richland:

  • Roosevelt County     (The home county of Richland)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Richland, with the one closest to Richland listed first.
    • Causey
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Dora
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • 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>
    • Rogers
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Rogers is located in Roosevelt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogers
    • Milnesand
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Arch
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Arch is located in Roosevelt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • Elida
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • 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>
    • Portales
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Kenna
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Kenna is located in Roosevelt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenna
  • Lea County
  • Bailey County (TX)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Richland, with the one closest to Richland listed first.
    • Maple
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Stegall
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Stegall is located in Bailey County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stegall
    • Enochs
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Cochran County (TX)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Richland, with the one closest to Richland listed first.
    • Bledsoe
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Morton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Morton is located in Cochran County (TX)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,840 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Morton <2>

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

Cemeteries Near Richland ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Richland.

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 Richland - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Richland Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • 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>
  • New Hope Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Causey Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 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>
  • Longs Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 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>
  • Mt. Zion Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 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>
  • Inez Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 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>
  • Bluitt Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Perkins Memorial Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Eagle Hill Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Maple Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Eiland Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eiland Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Eiland Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the west of Arch.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38037 <4>
  • Rest Lawn Memorial Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...
    • Jenkins Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Arch Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Spillman Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Richland ...

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 Richland.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Richland:

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 Richland, 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Richland) 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.