Welcome to Hidalgo County, New Mexico History and Genealogy Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This county is available for adoption! This website is part of the Genealogy Trails family. Our Group's goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. Learn more about joining our group as a county host and then CONTACT US DONATE YOUR DATA! Check your attics! Dust off your family scrapbooks! We're looking for DATA for this site!!! So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please send it to us and we'll make sure it gets posted online. If you have any comments, questions or data contributions, CONTACT US WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU.  All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back. County Information Hidalgo was created on February 25, 1919, from the southern part of Grant County. It was named for the town north of Mexico City where the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, which in turn was named for Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the priest who is known as the "Father of Mexican Independence". (source: wikipedia.org) City * Lordsburg is southeast of Virden, where US 70 and I-10 meet Village * Virden is in the northwestern corner, near U.S. Highway 70 Other Communities * Animas is in the middle of the county, south of Cotton City * Antelope Wells is located on the US-Mexico border on the southern edge of the county * Cotton City is about 25 miles southwest of Lordsburg * Playas is about 13 miles almost due east of Animas, near the county border * Summit is located on County Route A12 * Rodeo is located southwest of Animas on Highway 80 Ghost Towns Bramlett * Cloverdale * Cowboy Springs * Cloverdale * Gary * Road Fork * Steins * Shakespeare * Valedon * Walnut Wells near Lordsburg, New Mexico May 1937 Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore, Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in California and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico, for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways." One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary conditions in a labor camp . [Source: "Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection". The above story is part of the caption noted with the picture] Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Gleanings Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Contact us to Submit Your Data Submit an Obituary with our automated form Search Our Sites Don't miss an Update! Join our Genealogy Trails Southwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Southwestern States of : Texas -- New Mexico -- Oklahoma -- Nevada -- Arizona   Visit the New Mexico State Site Surrounding Counties * Grant County - northeast * Luna County - east * Cochise County, Ariz. - west * Greenlee County, Ariz. - northwest * Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico - southwest * Ascensión, Chihuahua, Mexico - southeast * Janos, Chihuahua, Mexico - south Visit Genealogy Trails National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.