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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Frankel City. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Frankel City to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Frankel City, please Contact Us.

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 Frankel City (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 Frankel City. 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Frankel City is historic, it would have been located within present day Andrews County.

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 Andrews County: Lea (NM), Ector, Gaines, Martin, Midland & Winkler.

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

  • Andrews County     (The home county of Frankel City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Frankel City, with the one closest to Frankel City listed first.
    • Shafter Lake ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shafter Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shafter Lake
      • Shafter Lake is located in Andrews County
    • Florey
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florey
      • Florey is located in Andrews County
    • Andrews
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Ector County
    • Goldsmith
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goldsmith have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldsmith
      • Goldsmith is located in Ector County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 277 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goldsmith <3>
  • Gaines County
    • Seminole
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Lea County (NM)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Frankel City, with the one closest to Frankel City listed first.
    • Jones City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jones City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
      • Jones City is located in Lea County (NM)
    • Maypens
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
      • Maypens is located in Lea County (NM)
    • Eunice
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eunice
      • Eunice is located in Lea County (NM)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,049 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eunice <3>
    • Hobbs
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobbs
      • Hobbs is located in Lea County (NM)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 39,339 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hobbs <3>
    • Jal
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jal have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jal
      • Jal is located in Lea County (NM)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,118 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jal <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Frankel City ...

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 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Frankel City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Frankel City, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Frankel City.

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 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 Frankel City:

Cemeteries Near Frankel City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Frankel City.

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 Frankel City covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Shafter Lake Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Andrews West Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Andrews Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Andrews Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Andrews.
    • The Andrews Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Andrews County Cemetery
    • Old Andrews Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Andrews Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #240561 <5>
  • Andrews North Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Gaines County Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gaines County Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Seminole.
    • The Gaines County Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Gaines County South Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gaines County Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2218389 <5>
  • Gaines County Memorial Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Everglades Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Everglades Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Everglades Cemetery
  • Jal Cooper Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Jal Cooper Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jal Cooper Cemetery
  • Prairie Haven Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Prairie Haven Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie Haven Cemetery

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

The official website for Andrews County: www.co.andrews.tx.us/

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Frankel City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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- Frankel City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Frankel City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.3843, Longitude: -102.7821       In this case, the coordinates for Frankel City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.




 

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