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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 San Luis (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 San Luis. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

San Luis is located in Sandoval 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 Sandoval County: Bernalillo, Cibola, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba & Santa Fe.

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

  • Sandoval County     (The home county of San Luis)
    • The following are listed by their distance from San Luis, with the one closest to San Luis listed first.
    • Guadalupe
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guadalupe
      • Guadalupe is located in Sandoval County
    • Torreon
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Torreon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreon
      • Torreon is located in Sandoval County
    • San Ysidro
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jemez Pueblo
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Zia Pueblo
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Zia Pueblo have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zia Pueblo
      • Zia Pueblo is located in Sandoval County
    • Jemez Springs
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Ponderosa
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Copper City ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Copper City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper City
      • Copper City is located in Sandoval County
    • Cuba
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuba
      • Cuba is located in Sandoval County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 756 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cuba <2>
    • Seven Springs
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Springs
      • Seven Springs is located in Sandoval County
    • La Jara
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Santa Ana Pueblo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santa Ana Pueblo have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Ana Pueblo
      • Santa Ana Pueblo is located in Sandoval County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Santa Ana Pueblo <2>

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

Cemeteries Near San Luis ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of San Luis.

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

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

  • Guadalupe Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Guadalupe Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Guadalupe Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38097 <4>
  • Canon Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • San Ysidro Catholic Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Jemez Springs Catholic Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Ponderosa Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ponderosa Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ponderosa Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38333 <4>
  • Cuba Presbyterian Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
  • Immaculate Conception Catholic Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Santo Nino Mission Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in San Luis ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around San Luis.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of San Luis, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for San Luis.

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 San Luis:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

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

The official website for Sandoval County: www.sandovalcounty.com/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- San Luis) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in San Luis. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6825, Longitude: -107.0506       In this case, the coordinates for San Luis have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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