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Introduction ...

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

We've added Hart Camp to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Hart Camp, 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 Hart Camp (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 Hart Camp. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Hart Camp is historic, it would have been located within present day Lamb 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 Lamb County: Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock, Parmer & Swisher.

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

  • Lamb County     (The home county of Hart Camp)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hart Camp, with the one closest to Hart Camp listed first.
    • Fieldton
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Spade
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Spade is located in Lamb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spade
    • Olton
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Littlefield
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Amherst
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Springlake
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Earth
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Sudan
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Bailey County
  • Castro County
    • Hart
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Hart is located in Castro County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,016 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hart <2>
  • Hale County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hart Camp, with the one closest to Hart Camp listed first.
    • Cotton Center
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Cotton Center is located in Hale County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Center
    • Hale City ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Hale City is located in Hale County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale City
    • Hale Center
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Edmonson
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Abernathy
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Plainview
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Seth Ward
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Seth Ward is located in Hale County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seth Ward
  • Hockley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hart Camp, with the one closest to Hart Camp listed first.
    • Anton
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Anton is located in Hockley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,089 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Anton <2>
    • Roundup
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Roundup is located in Hockley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roundup
    • Whitharral
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Pep
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Smyer
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Lubbock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hart Camp, with the one closest to Hart Camp listed first.
    • Shallowater
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • New Deal
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • New Deal is located in Lubbock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Deal
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 841 people
    • Reese Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Reese Village is located in Lubbock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reese Village

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

Cemeteries Near Hart Camp ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hart Camp.

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 Hart Camp - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Center Plains Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Littlefield Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Olton Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Anton Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Hale Center Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Halfway Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Amherst Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Springlake Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Earth Memorial Perpetual Care Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Memorial Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Whitharral Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Strip / Pearce Chapel Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strip / Pearce Chapel Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Strip / Pearce Chapel Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<3> to the east of Abernathy.
      • The Strip / Pearce Chapel Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Pearce Chapel Cemetery
      • Strip Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7115 <4>
    • Sudan Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Hart Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)

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.

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

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

  • Hale City ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Hale City is located in Hale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale City
  • Plainview
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Hart Camp ...

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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hart Camp.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hart Camp, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hart Camp.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Hart Camp:

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 Hart Camp, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hart Camp) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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.