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 Tucumcari (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 Tucumcari. 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.

Tucumcari is located in Quay County and is the County Seat.

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 Quay County: Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Roosevelt, San Miguel, Union, Deaf Smith (TX), Hartley (TX) & Oldham (TX).

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

• Quay County     (The home county of Tucumcari)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Tucumcari, with the one closest to Tucumcari listed first.
  • Lesbia ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lesbia have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lesbia
    • Lesbia is located in Quay County
  • Cummings Place
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings Place
    • Cummings Place is located in Quay County
  • San Jon
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Jon
    • San Jon is located in Quay County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 202 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for San Jon <2>
  • Logan
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
    • Logan is located in Quay County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 974 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Logan <2>
  • Ragland
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragland
    • Ragland is located in Quay County

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Tucumcari ...

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 33 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tucumcari.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Tucumcari. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Tucumcari and those printed in the larger area surrounding Tucumcari.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3> of Tucumcari.

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 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 Tucumcari:

• Websites specific to New Mexico
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the State Records Center and Archives

• Pages specific to Quay County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties

• Cemetery Information and Directories for New Mexico
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cemeteries of Quay County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cemeteries of Quay County

Cemeteries Near Tucumcari ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tucumcari.

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

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

• Tucumcari Memorial Park
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Tucumcari Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Tucumcari.
  • The Tucumcari Memorial Park has also been known as:
  • Memorial Park Cemetery
  • Sunnyside Cemetery
  • Tucumcari Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tucumcari Memorial Park
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38492 <4>
• Newhome Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Newhome Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Newhome Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38275 <4>
• Apodaca Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Apodaca Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Apodaca Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37943 <4>
• Dodson Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • The Dodson Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Brown Cemetery
  • Dobson Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dodson Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2479903 <4>
• Hudson Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hudson Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1984140 <4>
• Norton Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Norton Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Norton Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2498410 <4>
• Montoya Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Montoya Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2221933 <4>
• Bryantine Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bryantine Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bryantine Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37967 <4>
• Puerto Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Puerto Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38341 <4>
• Brown Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brown Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37963 <4>
• Vigil Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vigil Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38502 <4>
• West Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the West Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the West Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38509 <4>
• Continue List   (17 more) ...
  • Alamosa Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Alamosa Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alamosa Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37935 <4>
  • San Jon Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the San Jon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the San Jon Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in San Jon.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the San Jon Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38408 <4>
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pleasant Valley Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<3> to the north of San Jon.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38330 <4>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Tucumcari: www.cityoftucumcari.com/

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