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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 Casa Blanca (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 Casa Blanca. 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.

Casa Blanca is located in Jim Wells 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 Jim Wells County: Brooks, Duval, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces & San Patricio.

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

  • Jim Wells County     (The home county of Casa Blanca)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Casa Blanca, with the one closest to Casa Blanca listed first.
    • K-Bar Ranch
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • K-Bar Ranch is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for K-Bar Ranch
    • Sandia
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Orange Grove
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Pernitas Point
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Pernitas Point is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pernitas Point
    • Westdale
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Westdale is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westdale
    • Alfred - South La Paloma
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Owl Ranch - Amargosa
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Owl Ranch - Amargosa is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owl Ranch - Amargosa
    • Water City Estates
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Water City Estates is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water City Estates
      • Water City Estates has also been known as:
      • Water City Estates Colonia
    • Alice
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Rancho Alegre
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Rancho Alegre is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancho Alegre
    • Alice Acres
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Alice Acres is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alice Acres
      • Alice Acres has also been known as:
      • Alice Acres Colonia
    • Coyote Acres
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Coyote Acres is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Acres
      • Coyote Acres has also been known as:
      • Coyote Acres Colonia
    • Loma Linda East
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Loma Linda East is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma Linda East
      • Loma Linda East has also been known as:
      • Loma Linda East Colonia
  • Bee County
  • Duval County
    • San Diego
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Live Oak County
  • Nueces County
  • San Patricio County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Casa Blanca, with the one closest to Casa Blanca listed first.
    • Lake City
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Lake City is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 514 people
    • San Patricio
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • San Patricio is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Patricio
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 366 people
    • Edgewater - Paisano
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Edgewater - Paisano is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater - Paisano
    • Lakeside
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Paisano
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Paisano is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paisano
      • Paisano has also been known as:
      • Paisano Park Colonia
      • Paisano Park
    • Lakeshore Gardens - Hidden Acres
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Mathis
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Vahlsing
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Edroy
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Edroy is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edroy
      • Edroy has also been known as:
      • Edroy Colonia
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Edroy <1>
    • Odem
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Morgan Farm
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Saint Paul
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Saint Paul is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Paul
    • Del Sol - Loma Linda
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Casa Blanca ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Casa Blanca.

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 Casa Blanca - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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 Casa Blanca in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Casa Blanca.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Casa Blanca ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Casa Blanca.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Casa Blanca, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Casa Blanca.

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 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 Casa Blanca:

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 Casa Blanca, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Casa Blanca) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.