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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 Sierra de los Pinos (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 Sierra de los Pinos. 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.

Sierra de los Pinos is located in Sandoval 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 Sandoval County: Bernalillo, Cibola, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba & Santa Fe.

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

  • Sandoval County     (The home county of Sierra de los Pinos)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sierra de los Pinos, with the one closest to Sierra de los Pinos listed first.
    • Jemez Springs
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Seven Springs
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Seven Springs is located in Sandoval County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Springs
    • Ponderosa
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Jemez Pueblo
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Cochiti Lake
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Cochiti Pueblo
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • San Ysidro
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Sile
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Sile is located in Sandoval County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sile
    • Zia Pueblo
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Zia Pueblo is located in Sandoval County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zia Pueblo
    • Pena Blanca
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Copper City ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Copper City is located in Sandoval County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper City
    • Kewa Pueblo
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Cuba
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Cuba is located in Sandoval County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuba
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 756 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cuba <1>
  • Los Alamos County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sierra de los Pinos, with the one closest to Sierra de los Pinos listed first.
    • Los Alamos
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • White Rock
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • White Rock is located in Los Alamos County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock
  • Rio Arriba County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sierra de los Pinos, with the one closest to Sierra de los Pinos listed first.
    • Arroyo del Agua
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Arroyo del Agua is located in Rio Arriba County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arroyo del Agua
    • Coyote
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Santa Clara Pueblo
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Santa Clara Pueblo is located in Rio Arriba County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Clara Pueblo
    • Canones
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Santa Fe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sierra de los Pinos, with the one closest to Sierra de los Pinos listed first.
    • Pajarito
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Pajarito is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pajarito
    • San Ildefonso Pueblo
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • San Ildefonso Pueblo is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Ildefonso Pueblo
    • El Rancho
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • El Rancho is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Rancho
    • Jaconita
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Jaconita is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jaconita
    • La Cienega
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • La Cienega is located in Santa Fe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Cienega

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

Cemeteries Near Sierra de los Pinos ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sierra de los Pinos.

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 Sierra de los Pinos - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sierra de los Pinos, with the one closest to Sierra de los Pinos listed first.

  • Jemez Springs Catholic Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Ponderosa Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Canon Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Guaje Pines Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • San Ysidro Catholic Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Sile Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sile Cemetery
    • The Sile Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Santa Barbara Cathholic Church de Sile Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38454 <2>
  • Pena Blanca Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Immaculate Conception Catholic Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Cuba Presbyterian Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • La Bajada Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • San Ildefonso Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Youngsville Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Black Mesa Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • San Miguel Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Santo Nino Mission Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>

While we didn't find Sierra de los Pinos in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sierra de los Pinos.

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

Newspapers Published in Sierra de los Pinos ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sierra de los Pinos.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sierra de los Pinos, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sierra de los Pinos.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Sierra de los Pinos:

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 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.
<3>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 Sierra de los Pinos, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sierra de los Pinos) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.