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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 Sabinoso (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 Sabinoso. 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 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.

Sabinoso is located in San Miguel 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 San Miguel County: Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay, Santa Fe & Torrance.

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

  • San Miguel County     (The home county of Sabinoso)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sabinoso, with the one closest to Sabinoso listed first.
    • Trementina ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trementina have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trementina
      • Trementina is located in San Miguel County
    • Conchas
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Hooverville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooverville
      • Hooverville is located in San Miguel County
  • Harding County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sabinoso, with the one closest to Sabinoso listed first.
    • Armenta Plaza ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armenta Plaza
      • Armenta Plaza is located in Harding County
    • Roy
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roy
      • Roy is located in Harding County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 216 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Roy <2>
    • Solano
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Mosquero
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Mills
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Mora County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sabinoso, with the one closest to Sabinoso listed first.
    • Wagon Mound
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Valmora
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valmora
      • Valmora is located in Mora County

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

Newspapers Published in Sabinoso ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sabinoso.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sabinoso, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sabinoso.

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 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 Sabinoso:

Cemeteries Near Sabinoso ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sabinoso.

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

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

  • Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Canon Largo Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Juan Torres Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Juan Torres Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Juan Torres Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38146 <4>
  • Armenta Plaza Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Calvert Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Calvert Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Calvert Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #37971 <4>
  • Maes Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Maes Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Maes Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38202 <4>
  • Kelly Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kelly Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kelly Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38149 <4>
  • Mathews Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Trementina Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Alamosa Plaza Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Alamosa Plaza Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alamosa Plaza Cemetery
  • Sagrado Corazon Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Sagrado Corazon Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sagrado Corazon Cemetery is located 36 miles [57.9 km]<3> to the west of Las Vegas.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sagrado Corazon Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38377 <4>
  • Solano Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (16 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 Sabinoso in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sabinoso.

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

  • Wagon Mound
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Shoemaker
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shoemaker have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoemaker
    • Shoemaker is located in Mora County

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sabinoso) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sabinoso. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6989, Longitude: -104.4080       In this case, the coordinates for Sabinoso 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 Sabinoso, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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