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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 Tarpley (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 Tarpley. 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 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.

Tarpley is located in Bandera 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 Bandera County: Bexar, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, Real & Uvalde.

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

  • Bandera County     (The home county of Tarpley)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tarpley, with the one closest to Tarpley listed first.
    • Medina
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Tuff ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tuff have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuff
      • Tuff is located in Bandera County
    • Bandera
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Vanderpool
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vanderpool have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanderpool
      • Vanderpool is located in Bandera County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vanderpool <1>
    • Bandera Falls
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bandera Falls
      • Bandera Falls is located in Bandera County
    • Lakehills
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lakehills have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakehills
      • Lakehills is located in Bandera County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lakehills <1>
    • Pipe Creek
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Kendall County
    • Comfort
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Comfort have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comfort
      • Comfort is located in Kendall County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Comfort <1>
  • Kerr County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tarpley, with the one closest to Tarpley listed first.
    • Camp Verde
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Center Point
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Hunt
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hunt have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunt
      • Hunt is located in Kerr County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hunt <1>
    • Kerrville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Ingram
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ingram have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
      • Ingram is located in Kerr County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,871 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ingram <1>
  • Medina County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tarpley, with the one closest to Tarpley listed first.
    • Mico
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mico have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mico
      • Mico is located in Medina County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mico <1>
    • D'Hanis
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Hondo
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • New Fountain
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Fountain
      • New Fountain is located in Medina County
    • Quihi
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quihi
      • Quihi is located in Medina County
    • Rio Medina
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Real County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tarpley, with the one closest to Tarpley listed first.
    • Rio Frio
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rio Frio have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Frio
      • Rio Frio is located in Real County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rio Frio <1>
    • Leakey
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Uvalde County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tarpley, with the one closest to Tarpley listed first.
    • Utopia
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Utopia have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utopia
      • Utopia is located in Uvalde County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Utopia <1>
    • Sabinal
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sabinal have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabinal
      • Sabinal is located in Uvalde County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,676 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sabinal <1>
    • Concan
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Tarpley ...

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 48 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tarpley.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tarpley, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tarpley.

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 Tarpley:

Cemeteries Near Tarpley ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tarpley.

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

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

  • Tarpley Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Haby Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • West Prong Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Miller Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Miller Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Miller Cemetery
  • Bauerlein Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Bauerlein Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bauerlein Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2271 <4>
  • Oak Rest Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Tyron / Hendrick / Arnold Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Tyron / Hendrick / Arnold Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Tyron / Hendrick / Arnold Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Bandera.
    • The Tyron / Hendrick / Arnold Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Bandera Negro Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tyron / Hendrick / Arnold Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2436935 <4>
  • Goodman Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Means Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Waresville Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Waresville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Waresville Cemetery
  • Hillman Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Honey Creek Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Honey Creek Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Honey Creek Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #4338 <4>
  • Continue List   (55 more) ...

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

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

  • Medina
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Bandera
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Utopia
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Utopia have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utopia
    • Utopia is located in Uvalde County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Utopia <1>
  • Camp Verde
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • D'Hanis
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Hondo
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • New Fountain
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Fountain
    • New Fountain is located in Medina County
  • Center Point
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Sabinal
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sabinal have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabinal
    • Sabinal is located in Uvalde County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,676 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sabinal <1>
  • Concan
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Kerrville
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Ingram
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ingram have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
    • Ingram is located in Kerr County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,871 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ingram <1>

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Tarpley. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Bandera County: www.banderacounty.org/

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

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 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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Tarpley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Tarpley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.6572, Longitude: -99.2764       In this case, the coordinates for Tarpley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<5>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.
<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 Tarpley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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