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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 Hahns Peak (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 Hahns Peak. 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.

Name Variations for Hahns Peak ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

While the name of this community is Hahns Peak, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Hahns Peak may originally have been Hahn's Peak.

Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Hahns Peak might be written as Hahn Peak.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Hahns Peak is located in Routt 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 Routt County: Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco & Carbon (WY).

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

  • Routt County     (The home county of Hahns Peak)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hahns Peak, with the one closest to Hahns Peak listed first.
    • Columbine
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbine
      • Columbine is located in Routt County
    • Glen Eden
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Eden
      • Glen Eden is located in Routt County
    • Clark
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Mad Creek
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mad Creek
      • Mad Creek is located in Routt County
    • Trull ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Trull. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trull
      • Trull is located in Routt County
    • Milner
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milner
      • Milner is located in Routt County
    • Steamboat Springs
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Hayden
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Sidney
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
      • Sidney is located in Routt County
  • Jackson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hahns Peak, with the one closest to Hahns Peak listed first.
    • Higho
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Higho. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higho
      • Higho is located in Jackson County
    • Pearl ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearl
      • Pearl is located in Jackson County
  • Moffat County
    • Slater
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Slater have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slater
      • Slater is located in Moffat County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Slater <2>
  • Carbon County (WY)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hahns Peak, with the one closest to Hahns Peak listed first.
    • Encampment
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Grand Encampment
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand Encampment came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<5>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Encampment
      • Grand Encampment is located in Carbon County (WY)
    • Riverside
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Savery
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Hahns Peak ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hahns Peak.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hahns Peak, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hahns Peak.

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 Hahns Peak:

Cemeteries Near Hahns Peak ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hahns Peak.

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

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

  • Hahns Peak Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hahns Peak Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Hahns Peak.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hahns Peak Cemetery
  • Dead Mexican Park Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Dead Mexican Park Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dead Mexican Park Cemetery
  • Clark Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Deep Creek Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Three Forks Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Elk Mtn. Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Steamboat Springs Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Anderson Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • Hayden Pioneer Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Battle Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Battle Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Battle Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83991 <7>
    • Hayden Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Reader Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Encampment Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

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.<8>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Hahns Peak had a population of 42 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Clark
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Trull ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Trull. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trull
    • Trull is located in Routt County
  • Steamboat Springs
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Higho
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Higho. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higho
    • Higho is located in Jackson County
  • Hayden
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Sidney
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
    • Sidney is located in Routt County

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

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

The official website for Routt County: www.co.routt.co.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>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.
<5>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.
<6>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Hahns Peak) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hahns Peak. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8076, Longitude: -106.9439    
<7>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.
<8>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 Hahns Peak, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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