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 Eagle Pass (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 Eagle Pass. 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 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.
Eagle Pass is located in Maverick County and is the County Seat.
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 Maverick County: Dimmit, Kinney, Uvalde, Webb & Zavala.
Below are the counties that are near Eagle Pass. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Eagle Pass:
- Maverick County (The home county of Eagle Pass)
- The following are listed by their distance from Eagle Pass, with the one closest to Eagle Pass listed first.
- Las Quintas Fronterizas
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Las Quintas Fronterizas have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Quintas Fronterizas
- Las Quintas Fronterizas is located in Maverick County
- Las Quintas Fronterizas has also been known as:
- Las Quintas Fronterizas Colonia
- Eidson Road
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eidson Road have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eidson Road
- Eidson Road is located in Maverick County
- Elm Creek
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north) - Rosita North
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosita North
- Rosita North is located in Maverick County
- Rosita South
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosita South
- Rosita South is located in Maverick County
- Radar Base
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radar Base
- Radar Base is located in Maverick County
- El Indio
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Indio
- El Indio is located in Maverick County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for El Indio <2>
- Quemado
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quemado
- Quemado is located in Maverick County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Quemado <2>
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Eagle Pass, see our County-by-County Page for Eagle Pass.
Cemeteries Near Eagle Pass ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Eagle Pass.
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 Eagle Pass covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Eagle Pass, with the one closest to Eagle Pass listed first.
- Valley Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Valley Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Cometa Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cometa Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2991 <3>
- Vivian Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vivian Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Vivian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Vivian Cemetery has also been known as:
- Pendencia Creek Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7418 <3>
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 Eagle Pass had a population of 2,729 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Eagle Pass had a population of 29,515 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Eagle Pass, with the one closest to Eagle Pass listed first.
- Paloma
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north) - Darling
(19 miles [30.6 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 Eagle Pass. See our List of 1890's Communities around Eagle Pass.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Eagle Pass ...
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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Eagle Pass.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Eagle Pass. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Eagle Pass and those printed in the larger area surrounding Eagle Pass.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 18 miles [29 km]<5> of Eagle Pass.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Eagle Pass:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the //www.tsl.texas.gov/
- Pages specific to Maverick County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Texas
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Texas
- Cemeteries of Maverick County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Texas
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Texas
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Eagle Pass: www.cityofeaglepass.com/
The official website for Maverick County: www.maverickcounty.org/
The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <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 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 Eagle Pass, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <5> | 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- Eagle Pass) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Eagle Pass. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.7130, Longitude: -100.4839 In this case, the coordinates for Eagle Pass have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |