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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 Cruz Calle (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 Cruz Calle. 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.

Cruz Calle is located in Duval 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 Duval County: Brooks, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen & Webb.

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

  • Duval County     (The home county of Cruz Calle)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cruz Calle, with the one closest to Cruz Calle listed first.
    • Santa Cruz
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Santa Cruz is located in Duval County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Cruz
    • Rios
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Rios is located in Duval County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rios
    • Concepcion
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Benavides
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Realitos
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • San Diego
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Brooks County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cruz Calle, with the one closest to Cruz Calle listed first.
    • Falfurrias
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Cantu Addition
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Cantu Addition is located in Brooks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantu Addition
    • Airport Road Addition
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Flowella
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Flowella is located in Brooks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flowella
  • Jim Hogg County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cruz Calle, with the one closest to Cruz Calle listed first.
    • Las Lomitas
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Las Lomitas is located in Jim Hogg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Lomitas
    • Hebbronville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • South Fork Estates
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • South Fork Estates is located in Jim Hogg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork Estates
  • Jim Wells County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cruz Calle, with the one closest to Cruz Calle listed first.
    • Premont
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Ben Bolt
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Coyote Acres
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • 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
    • Alice Acres
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • 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
    • Loma Linda East
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • 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
    • Rancho Alegre
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Rancho Alegre is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancho Alegre
    • Alice
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Alice is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alice
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 18,591 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alice <1>
  • Kleberg County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cruz Calle, with the one closest to Cruz Calle listed first.
    • Kingsville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Riviera
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Cruz Calle ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cruz Calle.

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 Cruz Calle - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Gonzales Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Vera Cruz Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Las Piedritas Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Velas Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Conception Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Copita Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Perez Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Santo Nino Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Ramos Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Vicinity Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Ramirez Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Valadez Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (44 more) ...
    • Perez Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Garcia Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Antonio Lopez Family Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antonio Lopez Family Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Antonio Lopez Family Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<3> to the east of Benavides.
      • The Antonio Lopez Family Cemetery has also been known as:
      • San Jose Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #6701 <2>

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

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

  • Conception
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Conception is located in Duval County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conception
  • Benavides
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Realitos
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • San Diego
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Cruz Calle ...

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 36 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cruz Calle.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cruz Calle, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cruz Calle.

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 Cruz Calle:

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 '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- Cruz Calle) 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 Cruz Calle, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.