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 Cedarwood (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 Cedarwood. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Cedarwood is located in Pueblo 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 Pueblo County: Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Las Animas, Lincoln & Otero.
Below are the counties that are near Cedarwood. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cedarwood:
- Pueblo County (The home county of Cedarwood)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cedarwood, with the one closest to Cedarwood listed first.
- Colorado City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Colorado City is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colorado City
- Greenhorn
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Greenhorn is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhorn
- Rye
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Lombard Village
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Lombard Village is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lombard Village
- Salt Creek
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Salt Creek is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Creek
- Beulah Valley
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Beulah Valley is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beulah Valley
- Pueblo
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- 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>
- Vineland
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Vineland is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vineland
- Beulah
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Avondale
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Nyberg
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Nyberg is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nyberg
- Fort Reynolds
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Fort Reynolds is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Reynolds
- Boone
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Huerfano County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cedarwood, with the one closest to Cedarwood listed first.
- Lascar
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Lascar is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lascar
- Apache City
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Apache City is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apache City
- Cuchara Junction
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Cuchara Junction is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuchara Junction
- Calumet
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Calumet is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calumet
- Walsenburg
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Tioga
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Tioga is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tioga
- Alamo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Alamo is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cedarwood, see our County-by-County Page for Cedarwood.
Cemeteries Near Cedarwood ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cedarwood.
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 Cedarwood - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cedarwood covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cedarwood, with the one closest to Cedarwood listed first.
- Evergreen Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Verde Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Finn Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Doyle Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Speed Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Brookside Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Butte Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Valhalla Memorial Park
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Valdez Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Bustos Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Roselawn Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Mountain View Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the southwest of Pueblo.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57448 <2>
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Beulah Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Masonic Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
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.<4>
While we didn't find Cedarwood in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cedarwood.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cedarwood, with the one closest to Cedarwood listed first.
- Greenhorn
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Greenhorn is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhorn
- Rye
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Cuchara Junction
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Cuchara Junction is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuchara Junction
- Salt Creek
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Salt Creek is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Creek
- Pueblo
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- 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>
- Beulah
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Goodnight
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Goodnight is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodnight
- Tioga
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Tioga is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tioga
- Pictou
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Pictou is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pictou
- Walsenburg
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Baxter
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Baxter is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxter
- Nyberg
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Nyberg is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nyberg
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Eden
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Eden is located in Pueblo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
- Badito
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Badito is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badito
- Fairview
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Fairview is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cedarwood. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cedarwood.
Newspapers Published in Cedarwood ...
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 71 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cedarwood.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cedarwood, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cedarwood.
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 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 Cedarwood:
- Websites specific to Colorado
- Pages specific to Pueblo County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- 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> | 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cedarwood) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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 Cedarwood, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |