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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 Edler (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 Edler. 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 doctors and 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.

Edler is located in Baca 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 Baca County: Bent, Las Animas, Prowers, Morton (KS), Stanton (KS), Union (NM) & Cimarron (OK).

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

  • Baca County     (The home county of Edler)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Edler, with the one closest to Edler listed first.
    • Campo
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Pritchett
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pritchett have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pritchett
      • Pritchett is located in Baca County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 130 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pritchett <1>
    • Springfield
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Springfield have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield
      • Springfield is located in Baca County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,364 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Springfield <1>
    • Vilas
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vilas have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vilas
      • Vilas is located in Baca County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 106 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vilas <1>
    • Walsh
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Walsh have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walsh
      • Walsh is located in Baca County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 513 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Walsh <1>
  • Cimarron County (OK)
    • Kenton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Edler ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Edler.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Edler, 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 Edler.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Edler:

Cemeteries Near Edler ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Edler.

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 Edler covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Chapel Hill Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chapel Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chapel Hill Cemetery
  • Campo Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Campo Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Campo Cemetery
  • Prairie Queen Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Prairie Queen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie Queen Cemetery
  • Boggus Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Carrizo Springs Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Carrizo Springs Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Carrizo Springs Cemetery
  • Pritchett Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pritchett Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pritchett Cemetery
  • Rodley Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rodley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rodley Cemetery
  • Springfield Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Kenton Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kenton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kenton Cemetery
  • Boston Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Garrett Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Garrett Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Garrett Cemetery
  • Mt. Carmel Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Carmel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Carmel Cemetery
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Robb Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Robb Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Robb Cemetery
    • Andrix Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Andrix Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Andrix Cemetery
    • Vilas Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Vilas Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vilas 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.<5>

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

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

  • Springfield
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Springfield have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield
    • Springfield is located in Baca County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,364 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Springfield <1>
  • Kenton
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Boston ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boston came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<6>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boston
    • Boston is located in Baca County
  • Vilas
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vilas have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vilas
    • Vilas is located in Baca County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 106 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vilas <1>
  • Atlanta
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Atlanta have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atlanta
    • Atlanta is located in Baca County
  • Brookfield ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brookfield have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookfield
    • Brookfield is located in Baca County

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Edler. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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

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 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.
<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Edler) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Edler. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1764, Longitude: -102.7783       In this case, the coordinates for Edler have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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 Edler, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.




 

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