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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 Carlsbad (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 Carlsbad. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Carlsbad is located in Tom Green 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 Tom Green County: Coke, Concho, Irion, Menard, Runnels, Schleicher & Sterling.

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

  • Tom Green County     (The home county of Carlsbad)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Carlsbad, with the one closest to Carlsbad listed first.
    • Grape Creek
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Grape Creek is located in Tom Green County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grape Creek
    • Water Valley
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • San Angelo
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Orient
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Orient is located in Tom Green County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orient
    • Knickerbocker
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Veribest
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Veribest is located in Tom Green County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Veribest
    • Christoval
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Coke County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Carlsbad, with the one closest to Carlsbad listed first.
    • Edith
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Edith is located in Coke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edith
    • Robert Lee
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Tennyson
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Sanco ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Sanco is located in Coke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanco
    • Bronte
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Irion County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Carlsbad, with the one closest to Carlsbad listed first.
    • Arden ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Arden is located in Irion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arden
    • Hughes ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Hughes is located in Irion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hughes
    • Sherwood ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Sherwood is located in Irion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood
    • Mertzon
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Runnels County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Carlsbad, with the one closest to Carlsbad listed first.
    • Miles
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Maverick ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Maverick is located in Runnels County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maverick
  • Sterling County
    • Sterling City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Carlsbad ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Carlsbad.

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 Carlsbad - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Carlsbad covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Grape Creek Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Water Valley Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Pioneer Memorial Park
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Midway Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Arden Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Belvedere Memorial Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Delta Memorial Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Fairmount Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of San Angelo.
    • The Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
    • Johnson's Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #4771 <2>
  • Harriett Community Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Mule Creek Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...

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.<3>

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

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

  • Water Valley
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Arden ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Arden is located in Irion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arden
  • San Angelo
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Edith
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Edith is located in Coke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edith
  • Robert Lee
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Knickerbocker
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Sherwood ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Sherwood is located in Irion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood
  • Sterling City
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Miles
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Bronte
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Sanco ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Sanco is located in Coke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanco
  • Christoval
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Carlsbad ...

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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around Carlsbad.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Carlsbad, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Carlsbad.

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 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 Carlsbad:

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>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 Carlsbad, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Carlsbad) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.