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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 Adena (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 Adena. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 east contained birth and death records; the county to the north 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.

Adena is located in Morgan County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Morgan County: Adams, Logan, Washington & Weld.

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

  • Morgan County     (The home county of Adena)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Adena, with the one closest to Adena listed first.
    • Twelvemile Corner
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Twelvemile Corner is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twelvemile Corner
    • Hoyt
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Hoyt is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoyt
    • Fort Morgan
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Log Lane Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Log Lane Village is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Log Lane Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 848 people
    • Wiggins
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Brush
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Weldona
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Orchard
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Snyder
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hillrose
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Adams County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Adena, with the one closest to Adena listed first.
    • Shamrock
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Shamrock is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shamrock
    • Cabin Creek
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Cabin Creek is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabin Creek
    • Comanche ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Comanche is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comanche
    • Strasburg
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Arapahoe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Adena, with the one closest to Adena listed first.
    • Byers
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Deer Trail
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Washington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Adena, with the one closest to Adena listed first.
    • Woodrow
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Rago ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Rago is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rago
    • Last Chance
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Last Chance is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Last Chance
    • Pinneo ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Pinneo is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinneo
    • Midway ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Midway is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
    • Xenia ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Xenia is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Xenia
      • Xenia has also been known as:
      • Cody
  • Weld County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Adena, with the one closest to Adena listed first.
    • Dearfield ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Dearfield is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dearfield
    • Roggen
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Johnson
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Johnson is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson

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

Cemeteries Near Adena ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Adena.

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 Adena - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Adena covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Adena Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Hoyt Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Woolsey Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Swan Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Wiggins Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Presbyterian Church Columbarium
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Jolly Family Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Brush Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Eben - Ezer Lutheran Care Center Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Weldona Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • J. L. Brush Memorial Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Remember The Ten Crash Site Memorial
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Byers Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byers Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Byers Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Byers.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #163031 <2>
    • Abbott Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)

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.<3>

While we didn't find Adena in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Adena.

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

  • Fort Morgan
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Brush
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Goodrich
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Goodrich is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodrich
  • Byers
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Pinneo ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Pinneo is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinneo
  • Roggen
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Deer Trail
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Masters
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Masters is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masters

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

Newspapers Published in Adena ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Adena.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Adena, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Adena.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Adena:

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>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 Adena, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Adena) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.