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 Scotts Crossing (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 Scotts Crossing. 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.
Name Variations for Scotts Crossing ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.
- A typical abbreviation for Scotts Crossing: Scotts Xing.
- While the name of this community is Scotts Crossing, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Scotts Crossing may originally have been Scott's Crossing.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Scotts Crossing might be written as Scott Crossing.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 and 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.
Scotts Crossing is located in Hudspeth 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 Hudspeth County: Otero (NM), Culberson, El Paso & Jeff Davis.
Below are the counties that are near Scotts Crossing. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Scotts Crossing:
- Hudspeth County (The home county of Scotts Crossing)
- Culberson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Scotts Crossing, with the one closest to Scotts Crossing listed first.
- Van Horn
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Van Horn have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Horn
- Van Horn is located in Culberson County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,856 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Van Horn <3>
- Lobo ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lobo
- Lobo is located in Culberson County
- Jeff Davis County
- Presidio County
- Fort Holland ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fort Holland. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Holland
- Fort Holland is located in Presidio County
- Fort Holland has also been known as:
- Camp Holland
- Fort Holland ‑ Historic
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Scotts Crossing, see our County-by-County Page for Scotts Crossing.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Scotts Crossing:
- 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 Hudspeth County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Culberson County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Jeff Davis County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Presidio County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Culberson County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Texas
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Texas
- Cemeteries of Hudspeth County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Texas
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Texas
Cemeteries Near Scotts Crossing ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Scotts Crossing.
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).
- Buffalo Soldiers Graves
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- The Buffalo Soldiers Graves has also been known as:
- Indian Hot Springs Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Buffalo Soldiers Graves
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2484600 <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.<6>
While we didn't find Scotts Crossing in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Scotts Crossing.
- Chispa ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Scotts Crossing. See our List of 1890's Communities around Scotts Crossing.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Scotts Crossing. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Scotts Crossing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |