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Introduction ...

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

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

Name Variations for Steins ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

Prior to its current name of Steins, it was known as Stein's Pass.

Steins was originally named Doubtful Canyon

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

A Few Details for Steins ...

While it's still very early in our research, we found that:

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Steins is historic, it would have been located within present day Hidalgo 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 Hidalgo County: Cochise (AZ), Greenlee (AZ), Grant & Luna.

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

  • Hidalgo County     (The home county of Steins)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Steins, with the one closest to Steins listed first.
    • Cotton City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cotton City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton City
      • Cotton City is located in Hidalgo County
    • Shakespeare ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shakespeare
      • Shakespeare is located in Hidalgo County
      • Former name for Shakespeare:
      • Ralston City
    • Lordsburg
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Animas
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Rodeo
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Windmill
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windmill
      • Windmill is located in Hidalgo County
  • Cochise County (AZ)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Steins, with the one closest to Steins listed first.
    • San Simon
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Portal
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Hilltop ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hilltop have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
      • Hilltop is located in Cochise County (AZ)
    • Paradise
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
      • Paradise is located in Cochise County (AZ)
    • Camp Bowie ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Bowie
      • Camp Bowie is located in Cochise County (AZ)
    • Fort Bowie ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Bowie
      • Fort Bowie is located in Cochise County (AZ)
    • Bowie
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Graham County (AZ)
    • Whitlock Cienega ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whitlock Cienega have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitlock Cienega
      • Whitlock Cienega is located in Graham County (AZ)

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

Newspapers Published in Steins ...

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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Steins.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Steins, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Steins.

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 Steins:

Cemeteries Near Steins ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Steins.

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

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

  • Steins Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Valley View Community Church Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • John James Giddings Gravesite
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the John James Giddings Gravesite have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The John James Giddings Gravesite has also been known as:
    • Giddings Grave
    • Giddings Gravesite
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the John James Giddings Gravesite
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57018 <5>
  • Busy Bee Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • The Busy Bee Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Animas LDS Cemetery
    • Animas LDS Cemetery
    • Cotton City LDS Cemetery
    • Cotton City LDS Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Busy Bee Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2454001 <5>
  • Shakespeare Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Paradise Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Paradise Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Paradise Cemetery
  • Ft. Bowie Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Erickson Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Erickson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Erickson Cemetery
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Rodeo Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Neighborhood Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Bowie Desert Rest Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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.

Steins itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a population of 35 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Steins, with the one closest to Steins listed first.

  • San Simon
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Olga
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Olga have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olga
    • Olga is located in Cochise County (AZ)
  • Fort Bowie ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Bowie
    • Fort Bowie is located in Cochise County (AZ)
  • Bowie
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Steins. See our List of 1890's Communities around Steins.

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

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 Steins, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Steins) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Steins. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.2288, Longitude: -108.9896    
<5>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.




 

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