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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 Copper Spur (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 Copper Spur. 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.

Copper Spur is located in Eagle 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 Eagle County: Garfield, Grand, Lake, Pitkin, Routt & Summit.

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

  • Eagle County     (The home county of Copper Spur)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Copper Spur, with the one closest to Copper Spur listed first.
    • McCoy
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Bond
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Burns
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Wolcott
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Eagle
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Edwards
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Avon
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Avon is located in Eagle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,952 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Avon <1>
    • Beaver Creek
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Gypsum
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Vail
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Vail is located in Eagle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vail
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,489 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vail <1>
    • Minturn
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Astor City ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Astor City is located in Eagle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Astor City
    • Bighorn
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Bighorn is located in Eagle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bighorn
  • Grand County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Copper Spur, with the one closest to Copper Spur listed first.
    • Kremmling
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Parshall
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Routt County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Copper Spur, with the one closest to Copper Spur listed first.
    • Egeria
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Egeria is located in Routt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egeria
    • Toponas
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Yampa
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Phippsburg
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Oak Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Summit County

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

Cemeteries Near Copper Spur ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Copper Spur.

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 Copper Spur - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • McCoy Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Sheephorn Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Brett Family Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Edwards Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Kremmling Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kremmling Cemetery
    • The Kremmling Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Riverside Cemetery
  • King Family Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • The King Family Cemetery is located on private property - be sure to secure permission before visiting.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for King Family Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the King Family Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the east of Kremmling.
    • The King Family Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Troublesome Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2571525 <3>
  • Yampa Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yampa Cemetery
    • The Yampa Cemetery has also been known as:
    • South Routt Cemetery
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Adams Family Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • River View Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Dotsero Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Oak Creek Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Creek Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Oak Creek Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Oak Creek.
  • Burtcher Gravesite
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burtcher Gravesite
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Burtcher Gravesite is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the south of Parshall.

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 Copper Spur in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Copper Spur.

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

  • McCoy
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Egeria
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Egeria is located in Routt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egeria
  • Toponas
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Wolcott
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Kremmling
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Eagle
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Edwards
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Avon
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Avon is located in Eagle County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,952 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Avon <1>
  • Gypsum
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Troublesome
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Troublesome is located in Grand County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troublesome
  • Dotsero
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Dotsero is located in Eagle County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dotsero
  • Minturn
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Copper Spur ...

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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Copper Spur.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Copper Spur, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Copper Spur.

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 Copper Spur:

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>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 from Point A (ie- Copper Spur) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Copper Spur, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.