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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 Heiberger (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 Heiberger. 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 and doctors 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.

Heiberger is located in Mesa 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 Mesa County: Delta, Garfield, Gunnison, Montrose, Pitkin & Grand (UT).

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

  • Mesa County     (The home county of Heiberger)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Heiberger, with the one closest to Heiberger listed first.
    • Collbran
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Plateau City
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Plateau City is located in Mesa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plateau City
    • Molina
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Mesa
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • De Beque
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Cameo
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Cameo is located in Mesa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cameo
  • Delta County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Heiberger, with the one closest to Heiberger listed first.
    • Grand Mesa
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Grand Mesa is located in Delta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Mesa
    • Cedaredge
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Bowie
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Bowie is located in Delta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowie
      • Former names for Bowie:
      • Reading
      • Wauneta
    • Paonia
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Eckert
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Garfield County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Heiberger, with the one closest to Heiberger listed first.
    • Battlement Mesa
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Rifle
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • 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>
    • Parachute
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Parachute is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parachute
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,114 people
      • Former name for Parachute:
      • Grand Valley
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Parachute <1>
    • Una
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Una is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Una
    • Silt
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • 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>
    • New Castle
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Chacra
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Chacra is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chacra
    • Cardiff
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Cardiff is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cardiff
  • Gunnison County
  • Pitkin County

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

Cemeteries Near Heiberger ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Heiberger.

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

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

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

  • Clover Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Cedar Crest Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Eagalite Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Battlement Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Mesa Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Cemetery
    • The Mesa Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Fairview Cemetery
    • Mesa - Molina Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57426 <2>
  • Rose Hill Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Russey - Hurlburt Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • De Beque Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • High Land Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Cedaredge Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Marion Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Bethlehem Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Somerset Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

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

  • Rifle
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • 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>
  • Parachute
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Parachute is located in Garfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parachute
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,114 people
    • Former name for Parachute:
    • Grand Valley
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Parachute <1>
  • Una
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Una is located in Garfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Una
  • Mesa
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Antlers
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Antlers is located in Garfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antlers
  • De Beque
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • New Castle
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Cameo
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Cameo is located in Mesa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cameo
  • Chacra
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Chacra is located in Garfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chacra
  • Paonia
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Heiberger ...

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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around Heiberger.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Heiberger, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Heiberger.

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 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 Heiberger:

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 Heiberger, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Heiberger) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.