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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 Hackberry (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 Hackberry. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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.

Hackberry is located in Edwards 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 Edwards County: Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Real, Sutton, Uvalde & Val Verde.

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

  • Edwards County     (The home county of Hackberry)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hackberry, with the one closest to Hackberry listed first.
    • Rocksprings
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Barksdale
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Bandera County
    • Vanderpool
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vanderpool have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanderpool
      • Vanderpool is located in Bandera County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vanderpool <1>
  • Kimble County
    • Telegraph ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Telegraph have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telegraph
      • Telegraph is located in Kimble County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Telegraph <1>
  • Real County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hackberry, with the one closest to Hackberry listed first.
    • Camp Wood
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Camp Wood have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Wood
      • Camp Wood is located in Real County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 720 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Camp Wood <1>
    • Leakey
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Rio Frio
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rio Frio have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Frio
      • Rio Frio is located in Real County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rio Frio <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Hackberry ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hackberry.

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

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

  • Hackberry Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hackberry Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hackberry Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Coalson Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coalson Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Coalson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Garden of Memories
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Garden of Memories
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Garden of Memories is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Camp Wood.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #3753 <3>
  • Leakey Floral Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Leakey Floral Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Leakey Floral Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Leakey.
    • The Leakey Floral Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Leakey Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2167648 <3>
  • Cypress Creek Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Exile Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Clark Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clark Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Clark Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Cummins - Heard Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cummins - Heard Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cummins - Heard Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Paint Creek Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Paint Creek Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Paint Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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.<5>

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

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

  • Barksdale
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Montell
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Montell have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montell
    • Montell is located in Uvalde County

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

Newspapers Published in Hackberry ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hackberry.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hackberry, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hackberry.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Hackberry:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Hackberry. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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

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 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>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>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- Hackberry) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hackberry. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.9274, Longitude: -100.0126       In this case, the coordinates for Hackberry have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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 Hackberry, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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