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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 Red Mud (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 Red Mud. 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 and 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.

Red Mud is located in Dickens 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 Dickens County: Cottle, Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Kent, King, Motley & Stonewall.

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

  • Dickens County     (The home county of Red Mud)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Red Mud, with the one closest to Red Mud listed first.
    • Spur
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Spur is located in Dickens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spur
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,167 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spur <1>
    • Dickens
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • McAdoo
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Afton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Crosby County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Red Mud, with the one closest to Red Mud listed first.
    • Canyon Valley ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Canyon Valley is located in Crosby County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Valley
    • Crosbyton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Owens
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Owens is located in Crosby County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owens
    • Cap Rock
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Cap Rock is located in Crosby County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cap Rock
    • Savage ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Savage is located in Crosby County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Savage
    • Ralls
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Mount Blanco ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Mount Blanco is located in Crosby County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Blanco
  • Garza County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Red Mud, with the one closest to Red Mud listed first.
    • Verbena ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Verbena is located in Garza County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verbena
    • Post
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Post is located in Garza County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,123 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Post <1>
    • Justiceburg
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Kent County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Red Mud, with the one closest to Red Mud listed first.
    • Girard
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Clairemont
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Clairemont is located in Kent County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clairemont
    • Jayton
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Red Mud ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Red Mud.

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 Red Mud - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Espuela Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Dickens Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Mt. Zion Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Zion Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Zion Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<2> to the east of Crosbyton.
    • The Mt. Zion Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Crosbyton Colored Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #969411 <3>
  • Crosbyton Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crosbyton Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Crosbyton Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<2> to the northeast of Crosbyton.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #3122 <3>
  • McAdoo Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Cross H Ranch Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Clairemont Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Amity Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Afton Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Terrace Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jayton Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Emma Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emma Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Emma Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the south of Ralls.
    • The Emma Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Old Emma Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2172063 <3>
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Justiceburg Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Ralls Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Kate McCommis Grave
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

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

  • Jayton
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Mount Blanco ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Mount Blanco is located in Crosby County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Blanco

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

Newspapers Published in Red Mud ...

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 Red Mud.

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

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 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 Red Mud:

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 from Point A (ie- Red Mud) 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 Red Mud, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.