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 Aguilares (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 Aguilares. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Aguilares is located in Webb County.
To see how the shape of Texas' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Webb County: Dimmit, Duval, Jim Hogg, La Salle, Maverick & Zapata.
Below are the counties that are near Aguilares. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Aguilares:
- Webb County (The home county of Aguilares)
- The following are listed by their distance from Aguilares, with the one closest to Aguilares listed first.
- Mirando City Addition
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Mirando City Addition is located in Webb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirando City Addition
- Mirando City Addition has also been known as:
- Mirando City Addition Colonia
- Mirando City
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Los Ojuelos ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Los Ojuelos is located in Webb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Ojuelos
- Oilton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Pescadito ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Pescadito is located in Webb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pescadito
- Bruni
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Ranchitos Las Lomas
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Ranchitos Las Lomas is located in Webb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranchitos Las Lomas
- Regency Village
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Regency Village is located in Webb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Regency Village
- Regency Village has also been known as:
- Regency Village Colonia
- Laredo Ranchettes
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Laredo Ranchettes is located in Webb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laredo Ranchettes
- La Presa
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- La Presa is located in Webb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Presa
- La Presa has also been known as:
- La Presa Colonia
- Larga Vista
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Larga Vista is located in Webb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larga Vista
- Larga Vista has also been known as:
- Larga Vista Colonia
- Rio Bravo
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Rio Bravo is located in Webb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Bravo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,608 people
- Rio Bravo has also been known as:
- Rio Bravo Colonia
- Laredo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Jim Hogg County
- The following are listed by their distance from Aguilares, with the one closest to Aguilares listed first.
- Hebbronville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Las Lomitas
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Las Lomitas is located in Jim Hogg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Lomitas
- South Fork Estates
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- South Fork Estates is located in Jim Hogg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork Estates
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Aguilares, see our County-by-County Page for Aguilares.
Cemeteries Near Aguilares ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Aguilares.
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 Aguilares - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Aguilares covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Aguilares, with the one closest to Aguilares listed first.
- Loma Blanca Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Billings Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Greenhill Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Dolores Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- City Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for City Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the City Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Laredo.
- The City Cemetery has also been known as:
- Laredo City Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1186555 <2>
- Calvary Catholic Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvary Catholic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Calvary Catholic Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Laredo.
- The Calvary Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1966533 <2>
- Old Hebbronville Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Gracia Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gracia Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Gracia Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the northeast of Zapata.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2518825 <2>
- New Hebbronville Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Camaron Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camaron Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Camaron Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the northeast of Zapata.
- The Camaron Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cameron Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2717 <2>
- Becerra Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
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.<4>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Aguilares had railroad service and no post office.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Aguilares, with the one closest to Aguilares listed first.
- Pescadito ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Pescadito is located in Webb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pescadito
- Laredo
(25 miles [40.2 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 Aguilares. See our List of 1890's Communities around Aguilares.
Newspapers Published in Aguilares ...
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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Aguilares.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Aguilares, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Aguilares.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Aguilares:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Webb County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
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> | 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- Aguilares) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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 Aguilares, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |