Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Cloverdale. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Cloverdale to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Cloverdale, please Contact Us.

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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 Cloverdale (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 Cloverdale. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Cloverdale is historic, it would have been located within present day Hidalgo County.

To see how the shape of New Mexico's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hidalgo County: Cochise (AZ), Greenlee (AZ), Grant & Luna.

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

• Hidalgo County     (The home county of Cloverdale)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Cloverdale, with the one closest to Cloverdale listed first.
  • Gibson
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Gibson. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
    • Gibson is located in Hidalgo County
  • Alamo Hueco
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo Hueco
    • Alamo Hueco is located in Hidalgo County
  • Rodeo
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodeo
    • Rodeo is located in Hidalgo County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rodeo <3>
• Socorro County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Cloverdale, with the one closest to Cloverdale listed first.
  • Garcia
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia
    • Garcia is located in Socorro County
  • Bramlett ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramlett
    • Bramlett is located in Socorro County
• Cochise County (AZ)
  • Apache
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apache
    • Apache is located in Cochise County (AZ)

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Cloverdale:

• Websites specific to New Mexico
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the State Records Center and Archives

• Pages specific to Hidalgo County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Socorro County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Cochise County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for New Mexico
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cemeteries of Hidalgo County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of New Mexico
  • Cemeteries of Hidalgo County

Cemeteries Near Cloverdale ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cloverdale.

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

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

• Cloverdale Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cloverdale Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2193954 <4>
• Cottonwood Creek Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cottonwood Creek Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #56999 <4>
• Slaughter Family Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Slaughter Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Slaughter Family Cemetery is located 16 miles [25.7 km]<5> to the west of Douglas (AZ).
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Slaughter Family Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2221028 <4>
• Apache Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Apache Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #56962 <4>
• Middle Animas Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Middle Animas Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1986872 <4>
• Rodeo Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Rodeo Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Rodeo.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rodeo Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2144971 <4>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of New Mexico: www.newmexico.gov/