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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 Glen Comfort (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 Glen Comfort. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Glen Comfort is located in Larimer 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 Larimer County: Boulder, Grand, Jackson, Weld, Albany (WY) & Laramie (WY).

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

  • Larimer County     (The home county of Glen Comfort)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Glen Comfort, with the one closest to Glen Comfort listed first.
    • Estes Park
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Glen Haven
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Drake
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Big Elk Meadows
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Big Elk Meadows is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Elk Meadows
    • Masonville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Horsetooth Heights
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Horsetooth Heights is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horsetooth Heights
    • Stout ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Stout is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stout
    • Berthoud
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Campion
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Campion is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campion
    • Loveland
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Stove Prairie Landing
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Bellvue
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Fort Collins
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Boulder County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Glen Comfort, with the one closest to Glen Comfort listed first.
    • Noland
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Noland is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noland
    • Allenspark
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Lyons
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Lyons is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyons
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,058 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lyons <1>
    • Jamestown
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Hygiene
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Lazy Acres
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Lazy Acres is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lazy Acres
    • Rowena
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Rowena is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowena
    • Gold Hill
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Gold Hill is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Hill
    • Ward
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • 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>
    • Salina
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Salina is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salina
    • Sunshine
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Sunshine is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
    • Longmont
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Wallstreet
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Wallstreet is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallstreet
  • Grand County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Glen Comfort, with the one closest to Glen Comfort listed first.
    • Lulu City ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Lulu City is located in Grand County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lulu City
    • Grand Lake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Dutchtown ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Dutchtown is located in Grand County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutchtown
  • Jackson County
    • Teller City ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Teller City is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teller City
  • Weld County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Glen Comfort, with the one closest to Glen Comfort listed first.
    • Highland Lake
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Highland Lake is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Lake
    • Mead
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Johnstown
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Windsor
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Windsor is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 27,659 people
      • Former names for Windsor:
      • New Liberty
      • New Windsor
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Windsor <1>
    • Hillsboro
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Hillsboro is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro

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

Cemeteries Near Glen Comfort ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Glen Comfort.

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 Glen Comfort - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Glen Comfort, with the one closest to Glen Comfort 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.<2>

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

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

  • Estes Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Noland
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Noland is located in Boulder County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noland
  • Lyons
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Lyons is located in Boulder County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyons
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,058 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lyons <1>
  • Stout ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Stout is located in Larimer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stout
  • Jamestown
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Altona ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Altona is located in Boulder County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altona
  • Hygiene
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Berthoud
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Loveland
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Springdale
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Springdale is located in Boulder County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springdale
  • Highland
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Highland is located in Boulder County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland
  • Bellvue
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Grand Lake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Gold Hill
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Gold Hill is located in Boulder County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Hill
    • Fort Collins
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Glen Comfort ...

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 63 newspapers that have been published in the area around Glen Comfort.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Glen Comfort, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Glen Comfort.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Glen Comfort:

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>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 Glen Comfort, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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- Glen Comfort) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.