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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 Clint (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 Clint. 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 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.

Clint is located in El Paso 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 El Paso County: Dona Ana (NM), Otero (NM) & Hudspeth.

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

  • El Paso County     (The home county of Clint)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clint, with the one closest to Clint listed first.
    • Morning Glory
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Morning Glory is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morning Glory
    • San Elizario
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Socorro
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Sparks
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Sparks is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparks
    • Horizon City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Agua Dulce
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Agua Dulce is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agua Dulce
      • Agua Dulce has also been known as:
      • Agua Dulce Colonia
    • Fabens
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Belen
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Belen is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belen
    • Tornillo
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Homestead Meadows South
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Homestead Meadows
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Homestead Meadows is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homestead Meadows
    • Homestead Meadows North
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Butterfield
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Butterfield is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butterfield
  • Hudspeth County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clint, with the one closest to Clint listed first.
    • Acala
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Acala is located in Hudspeth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acala
    • Fort Hancock
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Dona Ana County (NM)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clint, with the one closest to Clint listed first.
    • Sunland Park
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Santa Teresa
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Clint ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Clint.

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

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

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

  • San Lorenzo Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Cuadrilla Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Mt. Carmel Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Carmel Cemetery
    • The Mt. Carmel Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
  • Evergreen Cemetery East
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Concordia Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Temple Mt. Sinai Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Ft. Bliss National Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Rest Lawn Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Restlawn Memorial Park
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Helm Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 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, Clint had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Clint had a population of 1,115 people.

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

  • San Elizario
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Fabens
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Belen
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Belen is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belen
  • Ysleta
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Ysleta is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ysleta
  • Alfalfa
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Alfalfa is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfalfa
  • El Paso
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Courchesne
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Courchesne is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courchesne
  • Montoya
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Montoya is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montoya

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

Newspapers Published in Clint ...

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 79 newspapers that have been published in the area around Clint.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Clint, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Clint.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Clint:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Clint) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Clint, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.