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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 Cline (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 Cline. 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 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.

Cline is located in Uvalde 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 Uvalde County: Bandera, Edwards, Frio, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Real & Zavala.

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

  • Uvalde County     (The home county of Cline)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cline, with the one closest to Cline listed first.
    • Uvalde Estates
      (16 miles [25.7 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
    • Uvalde
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Knippa
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Concan
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Third Crossing
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Third Crossing is located in Uvalde County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Third Crossing
  • Kinney County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cline, with the one closest to Cline listed first.
    • Brackettville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Spofford
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Spofford is located in Kinney County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spofford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
    • Alamo Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Alamo Village is located in Kinney County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo Village
  • Real County
    • Camp Wood
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Zavala County

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

Cemeteries Near Cline ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cline.

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

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

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

  • Sparks Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Yancy Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • City of Uvalde Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Uvalde Catholic Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Hillcrest Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Pioneer Park Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Vincent Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Ballantyne Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • 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>
  • The Ditch Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • The Ditch Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Sunset Hills Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Hills Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sunset Hills Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of La Pryor.
      • The Sunset Hills Cemetery has also been known as:
      • La Pryor Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #4708 <2>
    • Davenport Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Cummins - Heard Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Cline had a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Anacacho
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Anacacho is located in Kinney County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anacacho
  • Laguna
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Laguna is located in Uvalde County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laguna
  • Uvalde
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Spofford
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Spofford is located in Kinney County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spofford
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
  • Montell
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Montell is located in Uvalde County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montell
  • Brackettville
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Darling
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Darling is located in Maverick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darling
  • Concan
    (28 miles [45.1 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 Cline. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cline.

Newspapers Published in Cline ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cline.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cline, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cline.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Cline:

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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cline) 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 Cline, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.