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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 Goodrich (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 Goodrich. 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 and 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.

Goodrich is located in Morgan 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 Morgan County: Adams, Logan, Washington & Weld.

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

  • Morgan County     (The home county of Goodrich)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Goodrich, with the one closest to Goodrich listed first.
    • Orchard
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Weldona
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Wiggins
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Log Lane Village
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Log Lane Village is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Log Lane Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 848 people
    • Fort Morgan
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Brush
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Hoyt
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Hoyt is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoyt
    • Twelvemile Corner
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Twelvemile Corner is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twelvemile Corner
    • Snyder
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Hillrose
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Adams County
    • Comanche ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Comanche is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comanche
  • Weld County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Goodrich, with the one closest to Goodrich listed first.
    • Dearfield ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Dearfield is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dearfield
    • Hardin
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Hardin is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardin
    • Roggen
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Raymer
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Raymer is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymer
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 120 people
      • Raymer has also been known as:
      • New Raymer
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Raymer <1>
    • Keota
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Keota is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keota
    • Briggsdale
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Spanish Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Spanish Village is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Village
    • Gill
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Kersey
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Stoneham
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Johnson
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Johnson is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson
    • Galeton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Goodrich ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Goodrich.

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

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

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

  • Weldona Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Wiggins Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Christian Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christian Cemetery
    • The Christian Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Horst Cemetery
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Pilgrim Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Presbyterian Church Columbarium
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Hoyt Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Eben - Ezer Lutheran Care Center Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Raymer Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Brush Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • J. L. Brush Memorial Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Adena Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Briggsdale Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Keota Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Prairie View Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Goodrich had railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Masters
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Masters is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masters
  • Fort Morgan
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Buckingham ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Buckingham is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckingham
  • Hardin
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Hardin is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardin
  • Roggen
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Raymer
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Raymer is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymer
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 120 people
    • Raymer has also been known as:
    • New Raymer
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Raymer <1>
  • Brush
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Keota
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Keota is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keota
  • Stoneham
    (27 miles [43.5 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 Goodrich. See our List of 1890's Communities around Goodrich.

Newspapers Published in Goodrich ...

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 17 newspapers that have been published in the area around Goodrich.

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

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 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 Goodrich:

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 Goodrich, 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 from Point A (ie- Goodrich) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.