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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 Pueblo Nuevo (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 Pueblo Nuevo. 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 hospitals and 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.

Pueblo Nuevo is located in Presidio 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 Presidio County: Brewster & Jeff Davis.

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

  • Presidio County     (The home county of Pueblo Nuevo)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pueblo Nuevo, with the one closest to Pueblo Nuevo listed first.
    • Candelaria
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Candelaria is located in Presidio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candelaria
    • Ruidosa
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Chinati ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Chinati is located in Presidio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chinati
    • Porvenir ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Porvenir is located in Presidio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porvenir
    • Adobes ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Adobes is located in Presidio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adobes
    • Indio ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Indio is located in Presidio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indio
    • Fort Holland ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Fort Holland is located in Presidio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Holland
      • Fort Holland has also been known as:
      • Camp Holland
    • Shafter
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Shafter is located in Presidio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shafter
    • Ryan
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Ryan is located in Presidio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan

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

Cemeteries Near Pueblo Nuevo ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pueblo Nuevo.

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 Pueblo Nuevo - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Chinati Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Adobe Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Adobes Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Indio Ranch Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indio Ranch Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Indio Ranch Cemetery is located 14 miles [22.5 km]<2> to the northwest of Presidio.
    • The Indio Ranch Cemetery has also been known as:
    • El Indio Ranch Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2634511 <3>

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.<4>

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

  • Shafter
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Shafter is located in Presidio County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shafter

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

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 websites either 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 Pueblo Nuevo:

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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pueblo Nuevo) 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.
<4>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 Pueblo Nuevo, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.