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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 Gaskil (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 Gaskil. 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 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.

Gaskil is located in Grand 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 Grand County: Boulder, Clear Creek, Eagle, Gilpin, Jackson, Larimer, Routt & Summit.

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

  • Grand County     (The home county of Gaskil)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gaskil, with the one closest to Gaskil listed first.
    • Grand Lake
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Dutchtown ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Dutchtown is located in Grand County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutchtown
    • Lulu City ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Lulu City is located in Grand County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lulu City
    • Granby
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Hot Sulphur Springs
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Tabernash
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Parshall
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Fraser
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Winter Park
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Boulder County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gaskil, with the one closest to Gaskil listed first.
    • Allenspark
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Ward
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Ward is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ward
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 168 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ward <1>
    • Caribou ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Caribou is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caribou
      • Caribou has also been known as:
      • Caribou City
    • Jamestown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Eldora
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Eldora is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eldora
      • Former names for Eldora:
      • El Dora
      • Eldorado
      • Eldora has also been known as:
      • Happy Valley
    • Gold Hill
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Gold Hill is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Hill
    • Rowena
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Rowena is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowena
  • Jackson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gaskil, with the one closest to Gaskil listed first.
    • Teller City ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Teller City is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teller City
    • Gould ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Gould is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gould
    • Old Homestead
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Old Homestead is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Homestead
    • Rand
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Larimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gaskil, with the one closest to Gaskil listed first.
    • Estes Park
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Big Elk Meadows
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Big Elk Meadows is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Elk Meadows
    • Glen Haven
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Drake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Rustic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Rustic is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rustic
    • Manhattan ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Manhattan is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manhattan

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

Cemeteries Near Gaskil ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gaskil.

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

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

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

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.<3>

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

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

  • Grand Lake
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Estes Park
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Hot Sulphur Springs
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Fraser
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  • Caribou ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Caribou is located in Boulder County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caribou
    • Caribou has also been known as:
    • Caribou City
  • Troublesome
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Troublesome is located in Grand County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troublesome
  • Sunset ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Sunset is located in Boulder County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset
  • Jamestown
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Gaskil. See our List of 1890's Communities around Gaskil.

Newspapers Published in Gaskil ...

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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gaskil.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Gaskil, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Gaskil.

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 Gaskil:

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>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 Gaskil, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Gaskil) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.