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 Airport Addition (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 Airport Addition. 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 Airport Addition ...

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.

Airport Addition has also been known as: Airport Addition Colonia.

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.

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 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.

Airport Addition is located in Maverick County.

To see how the shape of Texas' counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Maverick County: Dimmit, Kinney, Uvalde, Webb & Zavala.

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

• Maverick County     (The home county of Airport Addition)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Airport Addition, with the one closest to Airport Addition listed first.
  • Radar Base
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radar Base
    • Radar Base is located in Maverick County
  • Elm Creek
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elm Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Creek
    • Elm Creek is located in Maverick County
  • Quemado
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quemado
    • Quemado is located in Maverick County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Quemado <2>
  • Eagle Pass
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagle Pass have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Pass
    • Eagle Pass is located in Maverick County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 29,515 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eagle Pass <2>
  • Las Quintas Fronterizas
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Las Quintas Fronterizas have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Quintas Fronterizas
    • Las Quintas Fronterizas is located in Maverick County
    • Las Quintas Fronterizas has also been known as:
    • Las Quintas Fronterizas Colonia
  • Eidson Road
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eidson Road have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eidson Road
    • Eidson Road is located in Maverick County
  • Rosita North
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosita North
    • Rosita North is located in Maverick County
  • Rosita South
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosita South
    • Rosita South is located in Maverick County
  • El Indio
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Indio
    • El Indio is located in Maverick County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for El Indio <2>
• Kinney County
  • Spofford
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spofford
    • Spofford is located in Kinney County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people

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

Newspapers Published in Airport Addition ...

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 Airport Addition.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Airport Addition, there are papers which were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Airport Addition.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Airport Addition:

• Websites specific to Texas
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //www.tsl.texas.gov/

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

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Kinney County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

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

Cemeteries Near Airport Addition ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Airport Addition.

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

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

• Valley Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Valley Cemetery
• Vincent Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Vincent Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vincent Cemetery
• Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery

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>

While we didn't find Airport Addition in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Airport Addition.

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

• Paloma
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Paloma have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paloma
  • Paloma is located in Maverick County
• Eagle Pass
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagle Pass have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Pass
  • Eagle Pass is located in Maverick County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 29,515 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eagle Pass <2>
• Darling
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Darling have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darling
  • Darling is located in Maverick County
• Spofford
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spofford
  • Spofford is located in Kinney County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
• Anacacho
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Anacacho have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anacacho
  • Anacacho is located in Kinney County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Maverick County: www.maverickcounty.org/

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/