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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 Crow (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 Crow. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Crow is located in Hidalgo 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 Hidalgo County: Brooks, Cameron, Kenedy, Starr & Willacy.

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

  • Hidalgo County     (The home county of Crow)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crow, with the one closest to Crow listed first.
    • Havana
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Havana is located in Hidalgo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havana
    • Sam Fordyce ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Sam Fordyce is located in Hidalgo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sam Fordyce
    • La Joya
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Los Ebanos
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Sullivan City
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Cuevitas
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Cuevitas is located in Hidalgo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuevitas
    • Penitas
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Chihuahua
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Chihuahua is located in Hidalgo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chihuahua
      • Chihuahua has also been known as:
      • Chihuahua Colonia
    • Abram
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Abram is located in Hidalgo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abram
    • Doffing
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Doffing is located in Hidalgo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doffing
    • Palmview South
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Palmview South is located in Hidalgo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmview South
    • Palmview
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Palmview is located in Hidalgo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmview
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,839 people
    • Citrus City
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Citrus City is located in Hidalgo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Citrus City
  • Starr County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crow, with the one closest to Crow listed first.
    • La Grulla
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • La Grulla is located in Starr County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Grulla
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,682 people
    • La Victoria
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • La Victoria is located in Starr County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Victoria
    • Alto Bonito
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Alto Bonito is located in Starr County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto Bonito
      • Alto Bonito has also been known as:
      • Alto Bonito Colonia
    • West Alto Bonito
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • West Alto Bonito is located in Starr County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Alto Bonito
      • West Alto Bonito has also been known as:
      • West Alto Bonito Colonia
    • Garciasville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • La Puerta
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • La Puerta is located in Starr County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Puerta
    • El Refugio
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • El Refugio is located in Starr County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Refugio
      • El Refugio has also been known as:
      • El Refugio Colonia
    • Las Lomas
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Las Lomas is located in Starr County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Lomas
    • La Carla
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • La Carla is located in Starr County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Carla
      • La Carla has also been known as:
      • La Carla Colonia
    • Rio Grande City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Los Villareales
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Los Villareales is located in Starr County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Villareales
    • Santel
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Santel is located in Starr County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santel
      • Santel has also been known as:
      • Santel Colonia
    • Los Alvarez
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Los Alvarez is located in Starr County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Alvarez

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

Cemeteries Near Crow ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crow.

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

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

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

  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Cuevitas Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • San Antonio Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • San Jose Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Jose Cemetery
    • The San Jose Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Abram Cemetery
  • Solizes Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • San Vicente Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Vicente Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the San Vicente Cemetery is located in La Grulla.
  • Longoria Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Laurel Hill Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Garciasville Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Granjeno Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granjeno Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Granjeno Cemetery is located in Granjeno.
  • Valley Memorial Gardens
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Temple Emanuel Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (35 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.<4>

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

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

  • Havana
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Havana is located in Hidalgo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havana
  • Hidalgo
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Rio Grande City
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)

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

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 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 Crow:

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