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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 Haxtun (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 Haxtun. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Haxtun is located in Phillips 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 Phillips County: Logan, Sedgwick, Yuma, Chase (NE) & Perkins (NE).

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

  • Phillips County     (The home county of Haxtun)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Haxtun, with the one closest to Haxtun listed first.
    • Paoli
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Holyoke
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Amherst
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Logan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Haxtun, with the one closest to Haxtun listed first.
    • Dailey
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Dailey is located in Logan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dailey
    • Saint Petersburg
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Saint Petersburg is located in Logan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Petersburg
    • Fleming
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Leroy
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Leroy is located in Logan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leroy
    • Red Lion
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Red Lion is located in Logan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lion
    • Crook
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Iliff
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Padroni
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Sterling
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Sedgwick County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Haxtun, with the one closest to Haxtun listed first.
    • Sedgwick
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Ovid
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Ovid is located in Sedgwick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ovid
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 302 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ovid <1>
    • Julesburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Washington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Haxtun, with the one closest to Haxtun listed first.
    • Leslie ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Leslie is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leslie
    • Lone Star ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Lone Star is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Star
    • Burdett ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Burdett is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdett

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

Cemeteries Near Haxtun ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Haxtun.

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

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

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

  • Paoli Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Posegate Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Peters Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Bryant Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Jarvis Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Fleming Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Rockland Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • New Haven Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Woodham Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Leroy Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Lynch Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Pleasant Valley Methodist Church Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Haxtun had a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Haxtun had a population of 937 people.

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

  • Paoli
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Fleming
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Leroy
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Leroy is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leroy
  • Holyoke
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Crook
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Red Lion
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Red Lion is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lion
  • Leslie ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Leslie is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leslie
  • Sedgwick
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Proctor ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Proctor is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proctor
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Galien
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Galien is located in Logan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galien
    • Amherst
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Iliff
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Burdett ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Burdett is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdett
    • Sterling
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Haxtun ...

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 38 newspapers that have been published in the area around Haxtun.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Haxtun. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Haxtun and those printed in the larger area surrounding Haxtun.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Haxtun.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Haxtun:

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 Haxtun, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Haxtun) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.