Our Genealogy Helper
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 Apache City (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 Apache City. 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 northwest 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 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 west 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.
Apache City is located in Huerfano 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 Huerfano County: Alamosa, Costilla, Custer, Las Animas & Pueblo.
Below are the counties that are near Apache City. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Apache City:
- Huerfano County (The home county of Apache City)
- The following are listed by their distance from Apache City, with the one closest to Apache City listed first.
- Lascar
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Lascar is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lascar
- Calumet
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Calumet is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calumet
- Tioga
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Tioga is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tioga
- Cuchara Junction
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Cuchara Junction is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuchara Junction
- Alamo
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Alamo is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo
- Walsenburg
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Gardner
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- La Veta Pass
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- La Veta Pass is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Veta Pass
- La Veta
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Muleshoe
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Muleshoe is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muleshoe
- Red Wing
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Uptop ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Uptop is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uptop
- Bradford
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Bradford is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradford
- Custer County
- The following are listed by their distance from Apache City, with the one closest to Apache City listed first.
- Greenwood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Greenwood is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
- Wetmore
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Pueblo County
- The following are listed by their distance from Apache City, with the one closest to Apache City listed first.
- Greenhorn
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Greenhorn is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhorn
- Colorado City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Colorado City is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colorado City
- Rye
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Beulah Valley
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Beulah Valley is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beulah Valley
- Beulah
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Siloam
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Siloam is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siloam
- Lombard Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Lombard Village is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lombard Village
- Salt Creek
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Salt Creek is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Creek
- Pueblo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Pueblo is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pueblo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 112,751 people
- Former names for Pueblo:
- Bessemer
- Central Pueblo
- South Pueblo
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pueblo <1>
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Apache City, see our County-by-County Page for Apache City.
Cemeteries Near Apache City ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Apache City.
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 Apache City - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Apache City covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Apache City, with the one closest to Apache City listed first.
- Butte Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Speed Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Brookside Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Evergreen Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Maes Creek Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Farisita Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Valdez Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Cisneros Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Bustos Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Beulah Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Verde Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- Sanches Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Yellowstone Creek Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Gardner Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
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.<2>
While we didn't find Apache City in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Apache City.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Apache City, with the one closest to Apache City listed first.
- Greenhorn
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Greenhorn is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhorn
- Rye
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Tioga
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Tioga is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tioga
- Badito
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Badito is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badito
- Pictou
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Pictou is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pictou
- Cuchara Junction
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Cuchara Junction is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuchara Junction
- Walsenburg
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Beulah
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Gardner
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Fairview
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Fairview is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Malachite
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Malachite is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malachite
- Muleshoe
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Muleshoe is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muleshoe
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- La Veta
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Rouse
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Rouse is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rouse
- Bradford
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Bradford is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradford
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Apache City. See our List of 1890's Communities around Apache City.
Newspapers Published in Apache City ...
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 59 newspapers that have been published in the area around Apache City.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Apache City, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Apache City.
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 helpful 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 Apache City:
- Websites specific to Colorado
- Pages specific to Huerfano County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Custer County
- Pueblo County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Colorado
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> | 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 Apache City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Apache City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |