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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 Robstown (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 Robstown. 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.

Robstown is located in Nueces 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 Nueces County: Aransas, Jim Wells, Kleberg & San Patricio.

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

  • Nueces County     (The home county of Robstown)
  • Bee County
  • Jim Wells County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Robstown, with the one closest to Robstown listed first.
    • Water City Estates
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Water City Estates is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water City Estates
      • Water City Estates has also been known as:
      • Water City Estates Colonia
    • Orange Grove
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Alfred - South La Paloma
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Casa Blanca
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • K-Bar Ranch
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • K-Bar Ranch is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for K-Bar Ranch
    • Sandia
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Westdale
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Westdale is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westdale
    • Pernitas Point
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Pernitas Point is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pernitas Point
    • Alice
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Rancho Alegre
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Rancho Alegre is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancho Alegre
    • Alice Acres
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Alice Acres is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alice Acres
      • Alice Acres has also been known as:
      • Alice Acres Colonia
    • Ben Bolt
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Owl Ranch - Amargosa
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Owl Ranch - Amargosa is located in Jim Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owl Ranch - Amargosa
  • Kleberg County
  • San Patricio County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Robstown, with the one closest to Robstown listed first.
    • Odem
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Edroy
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Edroy is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edroy
      • Edroy has also been known as:
      • Edroy Colonia
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Edroy <1>
    • San Patricio
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • San Patricio is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Patricio
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 366 people
    • Morgan Farm
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Del Sol - Loma Linda
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Rancho Chico
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Rancho Chico is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancho Chico
    • Sinton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Doyle
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Doyle is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyle
    • Taft Southwest
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Taft
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Taft is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taft
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,886 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Taft <1>
    • Portland
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Saint Paul
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Saint Paul is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Paul
    • Edgewater - Paisano
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Edgewater - Paisano is located in San Patricio County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater - Paisano

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

Cemeteries Near Robstown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Robstown.

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 Robstown - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Robstown ...

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 103 newspapers that have been published in the area around Robstown.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Robstown. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Robstown and those printed in the larger area surrounding Robstown.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 23 miles [37 km]<3> of Robstown.

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 Robstown:

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>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Robstown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Robstown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.