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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Delagua. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Delagua to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Delagua, please Contact Us.

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 Delagua (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 Delagua. 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Delagua is historic, it would have been located within present day Las Animas 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 Las Animas County: Baca, Bent, Costilla, Huerfano, Otero, Pueblo, Colfax (NM) & Union (NM).

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

  • Las Animas County     (The home county of Delagua)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Delagua, with the one closest to Delagua listed first.
    • Ludlow ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Ludlow is located in Las Animas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
    • Aguilar
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Gulnare
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Boncarbo
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Cokedale
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Cokedale is located in Las Animas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cokedale
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 121 people
    • El Moro
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • El Moro is located in Las Animas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Moro
    • Madrid ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Madrid is located in Las Animas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madrid
    • Trinidad
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Segundo
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Sopris ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Sopris is located in Las Animas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sopris
    • Valdez
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Valdez is located in Las Animas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valdez
    • Beshoar
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Beshoar is located in Las Animas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beshoar
    • Engleville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Engleville is located in Las Animas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Engleville
  • Huerfano County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Delagua, with the one closest to Delagua listed first.
    • Walsenburg
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Cuchara Junction
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Cuchara Junction is located in Huerfano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuchara Junction
    • La Veta
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Cuchara
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Calumet
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Calumet is located in Huerfano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calumet
    • Alamo
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Alamo is located in Huerfano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo
    • Tioga
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Tioga is located in Huerfano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tioga
  • Colfax County (NM)
    • Brilliant ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Brilliant is located in Colfax County (NM)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brilliant

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

Cemeteries Near Delagua ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Delagua.

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

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

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

  • Albertson Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • St. Anthony Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Trujillo Creek Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Jarosa Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Burro Canyon Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Thomas Rodger Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Gallegos Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Prince Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Valdez Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Masonic Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Chicosa Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Scott Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (35 more) ...
    • Tijeras Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Carpios Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Vigil Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 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.

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

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

  • Aguilar
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Gulnare
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Forbes ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Forbes is located in Las Animas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forbes
  • Rouse
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Rouse is located in Huerfano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rouse
  • El Moro
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • El Moro is located in Las Animas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Moro
  • Madrid ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Madrid is located in Las Animas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madrid
  • Trinidad
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Sopris ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Sopris is located in Las Animas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sopris
  • Engleville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Engleville is located in Las Animas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Engleville
  • Weston
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Starkville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Walsenburg
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (10 more) ...
    • Earl
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Earl is located in Las Animas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earl
    • Morley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Morley is located in Las Animas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morley
    • Pictou
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Pictou is located in Huerfano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pictou

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

Newspapers Published in Delagua ...

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 83 newspapers that have been published in the area around Delagua.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Delagua, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Delagua.

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 Delagua:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Delagua, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Delagua) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.