RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Colorado >> Gunnison County >> Crested Butte >> Genealogy HelperIndex...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
Colorado

The Commemorative Quarter for Colorado





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 Crested Butte (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 Crested Butte. 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 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.

Crested Butte is located in Gunnison County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gunnison County: Chaffee, Delta, Hinsdale, Ouray, Pitkin & Saguache.

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

  • Gunnison County     (The home county of Crested Butte)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crested Butte, with the one closest to Crested Butte listed first.
    • Mount Crested Butte
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Crested Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Crested Butte
      • Mount Crested Butte is located in Gunnison County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 893 people
    • Gothic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gothic
      • Gothic is located in Gunnison County
    • Irwin ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
      • Irwin is located in Gunnison County
    • Crystal ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
      • Crystal is located in Gunnison County
    • Almont
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Almont have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almont
      • Almont is located in Gunnison County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Almont <2>
    • Marble
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marble have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marble
      • Marble is located in Gunnison County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 140 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marble <2>
    • Gunnison
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Pieplant ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pieplant have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pieplant
      • Pieplant is located in Gunnison County
      • Pieplant has also been known as:
      • Pie Plant
      • Pieplant Mill
    • Somerset
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Somerset have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset
      • Somerset is located in Gunnison County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Somerset <2>
    • Abbeyville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbeyville
      • Abbeyville is located in Gunnison County
      • Former name for Abbeyville:
      • Hillerton
    • Iola ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iola have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iola
      • Iola is located in Gunnison County
    • Ohio City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Chaffee County
    • Winfield ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winfield
      • Winfield is located in Chaffee County
  • Delta County
    • Bowie
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bowie have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowie
      • Bowie is located in Delta County
      • Former names for Bowie:
      • Reading
      • Wauneta
  • Pitkin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crested Butte, with the one closest to Crested Butte listed first.
    • Ashcroft ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashcroft
      • Ashcroft is located in Pitkin County
      • Former names for Ashcroft:
      • Castle Forks City
      • Chloride
    • Ruby ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby
      • Ruby is located in Pitkin County
    • Aspen
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Snowmass Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Independence ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independence
      • Independence is located in Pitkin County
      • Independence has also been known as:
      • Chipeta
      • Farwell
      • Hunter's Pass
      • Mammoth City
      • Mount Hope
      • Sparkill
    • Redstone
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Woody Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Lenado ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lenado
      • Lenado is located in Pitkin County

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Crested Butte ...

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 50 newspapers that have been published in the area around Crested Butte.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Crested Butte. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Crested Butte and those printed in the larger area surrounding Crested Butte.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Crested Butte.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Crested Butte:

Cemeteries Near Crested Butte ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crested Butte.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Crested Butte Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Crested Butte Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crested Butte Cemetery
  • Irwin Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Irwin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Irwin Cemetery
  • Jacks Cabin Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Jacks Cabin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jacks Cabin Cemetery
  • Marble Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Marble Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Marble Cemetery
  • Palisade Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Palisade Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Palisade Cemetery
  • Gunnison Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Aspen Grove Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Aspen Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Aspen Grove Cemetery
  • Ute Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ute Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ute Cemetery
  • Red Butte Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Red Butte Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Butte Cemetery
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Somerset Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Somerset Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Somerset Cemetery
    • Ohio City Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ohio City Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ohio City Cemetery
    • Boothill Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Tincup Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tincup Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tincup Cemetery
    • Parlin Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Parlin Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Parlin Cemetery

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.<6>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Crested Butte had a population of 857 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Crested Butte had a population of 1,682 people.

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

  • Gothic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gothic
    • Gothic is located in Gunnison County
  • Irwin ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
    • Irwin is located in Gunnison County
  • Pittsburg ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pittsburg have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg
    • Pittsburg is located in Gunnison County
  • Baldwin ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baldwin have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baldwin
    • Baldwin is located in Gunnison County
  • Crystal ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
    • Crystal is located in Gunnison County
  • Almont
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Almont have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almont
    • Almont is located in Gunnison County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Almont <2>
  • Ashcroft ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashcroft
    • Ashcroft is located in Pitkin County
    • Former names for Ashcroft:
    • Castle Forks City
    • Chloride
  • Marble
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marble have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marble
    • Marble is located in Gunnison County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 140 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marble <2>
  • Gunnison
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Aspen
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
  • Hierro
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hierro have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hierro
    • Hierro is located in Gunnison County
  • Parlin
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Parlin have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parlin
    • Parlin is located in Gunnison County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Parlin <2>
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Ohio City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Tincup
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tincup
      • Tincup is located in Gunnison County
    • Lenado ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lenado
      • Lenado is located in Pitkin County

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

The official website for Crested Butte: www.crestedbutte-co.gov/

The official website for Gunnison County: www.co.gunnison.co.us/

The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 from Point A (ie- Crested Butte) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Crested Butte. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8698, Longitude: -106.9818    
<4>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.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>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 Crested Butte, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

Copyright 2024
All Rights Reserved

Thank you for visiting our website.

In closing, please keep in mind that we can not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of the information on this website, so use with care. We encourage you to double-check the information that is critical to you.

If you've found an error or have additional information that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to write: Click here to contact us.

This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024