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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 Humble Colorado 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 Humble Colorado 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 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.

Humble Colorado Camp is located in Jim Hogg 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 Jim Hogg County: Brooks, Duval, Starr, Webb & Zapata.

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

  • Jim Hogg County     (The home county of Humble Colorado Camp)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Humble Colorado Camp, with the one closest to Humble Colorado Camp listed first.
    • Guerra
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • South Fork Estates
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • South Fork Estates is located in Jim Hogg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork Estates
    • Hebbronville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Las Lomitas
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Las Lomitas is located in Jim Hogg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Lomitas
  • Starr County
  • Webb County
    • Los Ojuelos ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Los Ojuelos is located in Webb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Ojuelos
  • Zapata County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Humble Colorado Camp, with the one closest to Humble Colorado Camp listed first.
    • Morales - Sanchez
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Morales - Sanchez is located in Zapata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morales - Sanchez
      • Morales - Sanchez has also been known as:
      • Morales - Sanchez Colonia
    • Lopeno
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Medina
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Medina is located in Zapata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medina
    • Falcon Lake Estates
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Falcon Lake Estates is located in Zapata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falcon Lake Estates
    • Siesta Shores
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Siesta Shores is located in Zapata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siesta Shores
    • Zapata
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Falcon Mesa
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Falcon Mesa is located in Zapata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falcon Mesa
    • New Falcon
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • New Falcon is located in Zapata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Falcon
      • New Falcon has also been known as:
      • New Falcon Colonia

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

Cemeteries Near Humble Colorado Camp ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Humble Colorado 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 Humble Colorado Camp - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Camaron Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camaron Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Camaron Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<2> to the northeast of Zapata.
    • The Camaron Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cameron Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2717 <3>
  • Gracia Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Buena Vista Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Una de Gato Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Garcia Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Manuel Benavides Garcia Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Ramirez Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Agua Dulce Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Zapata Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
  • Uribeno Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Ranchito Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Tangue Allegre Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Elizondo Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Garcia Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • New Hebbronville Cemetery
      (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 Humble Colorado Camp. See our List of 1890's Communities around Humble Colorado Camp.

Newspapers Published in Humble Colorado 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 3 newspapers that have been published in the area around Humble Colorado Camp.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Humble Colorado Camp, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Humble Colorado Camp.

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 Humble Colorado Camp:

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>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- Humble Colorado Camp) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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.