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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 Taiban (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 Taiban. 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 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.

Taiban is located in DeBaca 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 DeBaca County: Chaves, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay & Roosevelt.

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

  • DeBaca County     (The home county of Taiban)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Taiban, with the one closest to Taiban listed first.
    • Fort Sumner
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Lake Sumner
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake Sumner have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Sumner
      • Lake Sumner is located in DeBaca County
  • Curry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Taiban, with the one closest to Taiban listed first.
    • Melrose
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Melrose have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose
      • Melrose is located in Curry County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 622 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Melrose <1>
    • Weber City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weber City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weber City
      • Weber City is located in Curry County
    • Saint Vrain
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Quay County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Taiban, with the one closest to Taiban listed first.
    • House
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • McAlister
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Ragland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragland
      • Ragland is located in Quay County
  • Roosevelt County
    • Floyd
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Floyd have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floyd
      • Floyd is located in Roosevelt County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 103 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Floyd <1>

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Taiban ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Taiban.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Taiban. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Taiban and those printed in the larger area surrounding Taiban.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3> of Taiban.

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 Taiban:

Cemeteries Near Taiban ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Taiban.

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

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

  • Taiban Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Taiban Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Taiban Cemetery
  • Tolar Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Trotter Gravesite
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • La Lande Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the La Lande Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the La Lande Cemetery
  • Old Ft. Sumner Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Blanco Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Blanco Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blanco Cemetery
  • Ft. Sumner Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Lone Mesa Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lone Mesa Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lone Mesa Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38187 <4>
  • House Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the House Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the House Cemetery
  • Gerhardt Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • House Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Locust Grove Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Locust Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Locust Grove Cemetery
  • Continue List   (20 more) ...
    • Hassell Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Benson Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • North Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the North Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Cemetery

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

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

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

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 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Taiban) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Taiban. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.4402, Longitude: -104.0069    
<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.




 

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