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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 Grizzly (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 Grizzly. 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 hospitals 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.

Grizzly is located in Garfield 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 Garfield County: Eagle, Mesa, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Routt, Grand (UT) & Uintah (UT).

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

  • Garfield County     (The home county of Grizzly)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grizzly, with the one closest to Grizzly listed first.
    • Cardiff
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Cardiff is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cardiff
    • Glenwood Springs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Carbondale
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Chacra
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Chacra is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chacra
    • Carbonate ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Carbonate is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbonate
    • New Castle
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Silt
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Silt is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silt
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,109 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Silt <1>
    • Rifle
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Rifle is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rifle
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,775 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rifle <1>
  • Eagle County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grizzly, with the one closest to Grizzly listed first.
    • El Jebel
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Gypsum
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Basalt
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Basalt is located in Eagle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basalt
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,183 people
      • Former names for Basalt:
      • Aspen Junction
      • Fryingpan Town
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Basalt <1>
    • Eagle
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Ruedi ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Ruedi is located in Eagle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruedi
    • Burns
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Pitkin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grizzly, with the one closest to Grizzly listed first.
    • Snowmass
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Redstone
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Woody Creek
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Snowmass Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Meredith
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Grizzly ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Grizzly.

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

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

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

  • Rosebud Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Fisher Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Weaver Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Carbondale Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Dotsero Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Marion Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • High Land Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Wheatley Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Rose Hill Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)

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 Grizzly in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Grizzly.

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

  • Shoshone
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Shoshone is located in Garfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone
  • Glenwood Springs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Cardiff
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Cardiff is located in Garfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cardiff
  • Cattle Creek
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Cattle Creek is located in Garfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cattle Creek
  • Satank
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Satank is located in Garfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Satank
  • Carbondale
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Chacra
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Chacra is located in Garfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chacra
  • Dotsero
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Dotsero is located in Eagle County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dotsero
  • New Castle
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Emma
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Emma is located in Pitkin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emma
  • Gypsum
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Basalt
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Basalt is located in Eagle County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basalt
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,183 people
    • Former names for Basalt:
    • Aspen Junction
    • Fryingpan Town
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Basalt <1>
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Eagle
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Antlers
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Antlers is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antlers
    • Ruedi ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Ruedi is located in Eagle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruedi

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

Newspapers Published in Grizzly ...

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 Grizzly.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Grizzly, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Grizzly.

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 Grizzly:

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