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 Villa Nueva (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 Villa Nueva. 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 Villa Nueva ...
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.
Villa Nueva has also been known as: Villa Nueva Colonia.
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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Villa Nueva is located in Cameron 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 Cameron County: Hidalgo & Willacy.
Below are the counties that are near Villa Nueva. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Villa Nueva:
- Cameron County (The home county of Villa Nueva)
- The following are listed by their distance from Villa Nueva, with the one closest to Villa Nueva listed first.
- San Pedro
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- San Pedro is located in Cameron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pedro
- San Pedro has also been known as:
- San Pedro Colonia
- Cameron Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Cameron Park is located in Cameron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cameron Park
- Cameron Park has also been known as:
- Cameron Park Colonia
- Olmito
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Rancho Viejo
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Brownsville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Encantada - Ranchito El Calaboz
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Reid Hope King
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Reid Hope King is located in Cameron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reid Hope King
- Reid Hope King has also been known as:
- Reid Hope King Colonia
- Indian Lake
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Indian Lake is located in Cameron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Lake
- Population from the 2020 Census: 864 people
- Los Fresnos
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- La Paloma
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- La Paloma is located in Cameron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Paloma
- Villa Pancho
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Villa Pancho is located in Cameron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villa Pancho
- Villa Pancho has also been known as:
- Villa Pancho Colonia
- Lago
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Lago is located in Cameron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lago
- Lago has also been known as:
- Lago Colonia
- Hidalgo County
- The following are listed by their distance from Villa Nueva, with the one closest to Villa Nueva listed first.
- Rio Rico
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Rio Rico is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Rico
- Relampago
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Relampago is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Relampago
- Heidelberg
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Heidelberg is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heidelberg
- Mercedes
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Progreso Lakes
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Progreso Lakes is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Progreso Lakes
- Population from the 2020 Census: 270 people
- Progreso
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Indian Hills
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Indian Hills is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Hills
- Llano Grande
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Llano Grande is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Llano Grande
- Villa Verde
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Villa Verde is located in Hidalgo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villa Verde
- Villa Verde has also been known as:
- Villa Verde Colonia
- Weslaco
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Willacy County
- The following are listed by their distance from Villa Nueva, with the one closest to Villa Nueva listed first.
- Santa Monica
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Santa Monica is located in Willacy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Monica
- Sebastian
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Villa Nueva, see our County-by-County Page for Villa Nueva.
Cemeteries Near Villa Nueva ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Villa Nueva.
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 Villa Nueva - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Villa Nueva covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Villa Nueva, with the one closest to Villa Nueva listed first.
- Russell's Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Old City Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Buena Vista Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Santa Rosalia Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Zepeda Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zepeda Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Zepeda Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the southeast of La Paloma.
- Southmost Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Soldiers Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- San Benito City Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- San Benito Memorial Park Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Monte Meta Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Harlingan City Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Longoria Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (29 more) ...
- Rio Hondo Community Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Hondo Community Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Rio Hondo Community Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Rio Hondo.
- The Rio Hondo Community Cemetery has also been known as:
- Jack Carpenter Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2188890 <2>
- Rio Hondo City Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Restlawn Memorial Park
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
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 Villa Nueva in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Villa Nueva.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Villa Nueva, with the one closest to Villa Nueva listed first.
- Brownsville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Santa Maria
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Villa Nueva. See our List of 1890's Communities around Villa Nueva.
Newspapers Published in Villa Nueva ...
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 63 newspapers that have been published in the area around Villa Nueva.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Villa Nueva, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Villa Nueva.
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 helpful 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 Villa Nueva:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Cameron County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Hidalgo County
- Willacy County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
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- Villa Nueva) 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 Villa Nueva, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |