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 Anacacho (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 Anacacho. 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.
Anacacho is located in Kinney 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 Kinney County: Edwards, Maverick, Uvalde & Val Verde.
Below are the counties that are near Anacacho. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Anacacho:
- Kinney County (The home county of Anacacho)
- The following are listed by their distance from Anacacho, with the one closest to Anacacho listed first.
- Spofford
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Spofford is located in Kinney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spofford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
- Brackettville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Alamo Village
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Alamo Village is located in Kinney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo Village
- Standart
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Standart is located in Kinney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Standart
- Maverick County
- The following are listed by their distance from Anacacho, with the one closest to Anacacho listed first.
- Quemado
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Radar Base
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Radar Base is located in Maverick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radar Base
- Elm Creek
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Elm Creek is located in Maverick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Creek
- Uvalde County
- Uvalde Estates
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Uvalde Estates is located in Uvalde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uvalde Estates
- Uvalde Estates has also been known as:
- Uvalde Estates Colonia
- Val Verde County
- Johnstone
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Johnstone is located in Val Verde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstone
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Anacacho, see our County-by-County Page for Anacacho.
Cemeteries Near Anacacho ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Anacacho.
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 Anacacho - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Anacacho covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Anacacho, with the one closest to Anacacho listed first.
- Vincent Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Vincent Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Spofford.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7414 <2>
- St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Ballantyne Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the southwest of Brackettville.
- The Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ft. Clark Springs Indian Scout Cemetery
- Seminole Negro Indian Scout Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #6838 <2>
- Sparks Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Yancy Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Valley Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Uvalde Catholic Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- City of Uvalde Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Hillcrest Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
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, Anacacho had railroad service and no post office.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Anacacho, with the one closest to Anacacho listed first.
- Spofford
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Spofford is located in Kinney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spofford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
- Brackettville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Cline
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Cline is located in Uvalde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cline
- Darling
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Darling is located in Maverick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darling
- Standart
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Standart is located in Kinney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Standart
- Paloma
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Paloma is located in Maverick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paloma
- Laguna
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Laguna is located in Uvalde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laguna
- Amanda
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Amanda is located in Kinney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amanda
- Montell
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Montell is located in Uvalde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montell
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Anacacho. See our List of 1890's Communities around Anacacho.
Newspapers Published in Anacacho ...
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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Anacacho.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Anacacho, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Anacacho.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Anacacho:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Kinney County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Maverick County
- Uvalde County
- Val Verde County
- 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 '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- Anacacho) 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 Anacacho, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |