New Mexico Land and Maps
Land Records, When searching New Mexico it may be necessary to consult other countries and states to find property records of your ancestors. Old Spanish Land Grants, French and Mexican Records, State of Texas and finally New Mexico are some of the places you may need to search to find the records of your ancestors. Native Americans were a large part of New Mexico history and as such their records may be difficult to research.
- BLM, GLO Records Welcome to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation web site. We provide live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. We also provide image access to more than three million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908. Currently, we are adding images of Military Land Warrants. These land patents were issued to individuals as a reward for their military service. Images related to survey plats and field notes, dating back to 1810, are added to the site state-by-state as each state's documents are completed. Due to organization of documents in the GLO collection, this site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.
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A Location Guide to the General Land Office (GLO) Survey Plats New Mexico
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Bureau of Land Management
New Mexico State Office
301 Dinosaur Trail
PO Box 27115
Santa Fe, NM 87508
www.publiclandsinfo.org/html/explore/mn splash.asp
Owns: originals & copies (microfilm, microfiche, electronic future)
Access: must examine on-site $$
This office also owns plats for Kansas and Oklahoma. -
National Archives and Records Administration
Regional Records Services
Rocky Mountain Region (Denver)
Bldg. 48, Denver Federal Center
P.O. Box 25307
Denver CO 80225
www.nara.gov/regional/denver.html
Owns: originals
Access: must examine on-site $$
This office also owns plats for Montana, Utah & Wyoming -
University of New Mexico
Centennial Science & Engineering Library
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1466
http://libguides.unm.edu/content.php?pid=13875
Owns: originals & copies (paper)
Access: must examine on-site $$
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Maps
Map Records, Where would we be without a map? In searching for our ancestors, we would be lost!! The maps they used and the ones we use now are very different. What we know as New Mexico today was at one time part of Spain, France, Mexico, Texas and a US Territory. New Mexico became a state on January 6, 1912. Some of us could have ancestors that were alive on that date. In a state with so much history, maps will play a very important part in locating where your ancestors lived.
- New Mexico County Map -Present
- New Mexico Maps
- Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Valencia County 1895
- Doña Ana County 1895
- Chaves and Eddy County 1895
- Grant County 1895
- Taos, Colfax, Mora County 1895
- Lincoln County 1895
- Rio Arriba County 1895
- San Juan County 1895
- San Miguel and Guadalupe County 1895
- Socorro and Sierra County 1895
- Union County 1895
- New Mexico 1777 of New Spain
- Original Counties of New Mexico 1852
- County Cemetery Map of New Mexico
- USGS
- US Geological Survey
- US Topo
- Brochure pdf
- Image Gallery, States
- Query Form (Great for finding Cemetery locations by State)
- Animated Migration Map showing settlement of the US
- County Search - Enter the city and find which county they are in.
- Following hosted at USGenWeb Archives Map Project
- Indian Land Cessions to the United States Treaty Maps (hosted at American Memory)
