Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

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

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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 Los Ojuelos (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 Los Ojuelos. 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 doctors and 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Los Ojuelos is historic, it would have been located within present day Webb 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 Webb County: Dimmit, Duval, Jim Hogg, La Salle, Maverick & Zapata.

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

• Webb County     (The home county of Los Ojuelos)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Los Ojuelos, with the one closest to Los Ojuelos listed first.
  • Mirando City Addition
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mirando City Addition have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirando City Addition
    • Mirando City Addition is located in Webb County
    • Mirando City Addition has also been known as:
    • Mirando City Addition Colonia
  • Mirando City
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mirando City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirando City
    • Mirando City is located in Webb County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mirando City <3>
  • Oilton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oilton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oilton
    • Oilton is located in Webb County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oilton <3>
  • Bruni
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bruni have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruni
    • Bruni is located in Webb County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bruni <3>
  • Pescadito ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pescadito have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pescadito
    • Pescadito is located in Webb County
  • Ranchitos Las Lomas
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ranchitos Las Lomas have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranchitos Las Lomas
    • Ranchitos Las Lomas is located in Webb County
  • Regency Village
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Regency Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Regency Village
    • Regency Village is located in Webb County
    • Regency Village has also been known as:
    • Regency Village Colonia
  • Laredo Ranchettes
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Laredo Ranchettes have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laredo Ranchettes
    • Laredo Ranchettes is located in Webb County
  • La Presa
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for La Presa have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Presa
    • La Presa is located in Webb County
    • La Presa has also been known as:
    • La Presa Colonia
  • Larga Vista
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Larga Vista have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larga Vista
    • Larga Vista is located in Webb County
    • Larga Vista has also been known as:
    • Larga Vista Colonia
  • Rio Bravo
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Bravo
    • Rio Bravo is located in Webb County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,608 people
    • Rio Bravo has also been known as:
    • Rio Bravo Colonia
• Duval County
  • Realitos
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Realitos have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Realitos
    • Realitos is located in Duval County
    • Realitos has also been known as:
    • Realitos Colonia
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Realitos <3>
• Jim Hogg County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Los Ojuelos, with the one closest to Los Ojuelos listed first.
  • Hebbronville
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebbronville
    • Hebbronville is located in Jim Hogg County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hebbronville <3>
  • Las Lomitas
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Las Lomitas have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Lomitas
    • Las Lomitas is located in Jim Hogg County
  • South Fork Estates
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Fork Estates have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork Estates
    • South Fork Estates is located in Jim Hogg County

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

Newspapers Published in Los Ojuelos ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Los Ojuelos.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Los Ojuelos, 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 Los Ojuelos.

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 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 Los Ojuelos:

• 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 Webb County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Duval County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Jim Hogg County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Texas
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Texas
  • Cemeteries of Webb County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Texas
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Texas
  • Cemeteries of Webb County

Cemeteries Near Los Ojuelos ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Los Ojuelos.

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

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

• Greenhill Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Greenhill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenhill Cemetery
• Loma Blanca Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Loma Blanca Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Loma Blanca Cemetery
• Billings Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Billings Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Billings Cemetery
• New Hebbronville Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Hebbronville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Hebbronville Cemetery
• Old Hebbronville Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Hebbronville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Hebbronville Cemetery
• Gracia Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gracia Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<4> to the southwest of Zapata.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gracia Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2518825 <5>
• Camaron Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Camaron Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<4> to the southwest of Zapata.
  • The Camaron Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Cameron Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Camaron Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2717 <5>
• Dolores Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Dolores Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dolores Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2518185 <5>

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 Los Ojuelos in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Los Ojuelos.

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

• Aguilares
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Aguilares have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aguilares
  • Aguilares is located in Webb County
• Pescadito ‑ Historic
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pescadito have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pescadito
  • Pescadito is located in Webb County
• Realitos
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Realitos have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Realitos
  • Realitos is located in Duval County
  • Realitos has also been known as:
  • Realitos Colonia
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Realitos <3>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Webb County: www.webbcounty.com/

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