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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 Clays Corner (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 Clays Corner. 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 Clays Corner ...

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.

  • A typical abbreviation for Clays Corner: Clays Cor. (or less commonly used: Clays Crn.)
  • While the name of this community is Clays Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Clays Corner may originally have been Clay's Corner.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Clays Corner might be written as Clay Corner.

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 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.

Clays Corner is located in Parmer 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 Parmer County: Curry (NM), Bailey, Castro, Deaf Smith & Lamb.

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

  • Parmer County     (The home county of Clays Corner)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
    • Lazbuddie
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Bovina
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bovina have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bovina
      • Bovina is located in Parmer County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,755 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bovina <2>
    • Friona
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Friona have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friona
      • Friona is located in Parmer County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,774 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Friona <2>
    • Farwell
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Farwell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farwell
      • Farwell is located in Parmer County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,275 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Farwell <2>
  • Bailey County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
    • Muleshoe
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Muleshoe have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muleshoe
      • Muleshoe is located in Bailey County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,822 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Muleshoe <2>
    • Stegall
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stegall
      • Stegall is located in Bailey County
  • Castro County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
    • Dimmitt
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Summerfield
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Summerfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerfield
      • Summerfield is located in Castro County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Summerfield <2>
  • Lamb County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
    • Earth
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Earth have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earth
      • Earth is located in Lamb County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 951 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Earth <2>
    • Sudan
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sudan have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sudan
      • Sudan is located in Lamb County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 879 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sudan <2>
    • Springlake
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Springlake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springlake
      • Springlake is located in Lamb County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 102 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Springlake <2>
  • Curry County (NM)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clays Corner, with the one closest to Clays Corner listed first.
    • Texico
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texico
      • Texico is located in Curry County (NM)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,062 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Texico <2>
    • Clovis
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clovis
      • Clovis is located in Curry County (NM)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 38,091 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clovis <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Clays Corner ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Clays Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Clays Corner, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Clays Corner.

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 Clays Corner:

Cemeteries Near Clays Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Clays Corner.

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 Clays Corner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Lazbuddie Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lazbuddie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lazbuddie Cemetery
  • Bailey County Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Lariat Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lariat Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lariat Cemetery
  • Muleshoe Memorial Park Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • West Camp Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Old Farwell Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Farwell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Farwell Cemetery
  • Earth Memorial Perpetual Care Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Memorial Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Memorial Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Memorial Cemetery
  • Flagg Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Texico Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Texico Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Texico Cemetery
  • Springlake Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Springlake Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Springlake Cemetery
  • Westlawn Memorial Park
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Pleasant Hill Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Hill Cemetery
    • Sudan Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sudan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sudan Cemetery
    • Castro Memorial Gardens
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)

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.<6>

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

  • Dimmitt
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Clays Corner) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Clays Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.3859, Longitude: -102.7166       In this case, the coordinates for Clays Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.
<6>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 Clays Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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