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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 Kannah (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 Kannah. 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 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.

Kannah 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 Kannah. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Kannah:

  • Mesa County     (The home county of Kannah)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kannah, with the one closest to Kannah listed first.
    • Whitewater
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Orchard Mesa
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Orchard Mesa is located in Mesa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard Mesa
    • Clifton
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Fruitvale
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Grand Junction
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Palisade
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Redlands
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Redlands is located in Mesa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redlands
    • Cameo
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Cameo is located in Mesa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cameo
    • Glade Park
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Fruita
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Mesa
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Molina
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Loma
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Delta County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kannah, with the one closest to Kannah listed first.
    • Dominguez
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Dominguez is located in Delta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dominguez
    • Escalante
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Escalante is located in Delta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escalante
    • Keyhole
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Keyhole is located in Delta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keyhole
    • Roubideau
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Roubideau is located in Delta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roubideau
    • North Delta
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • North Delta is located in Delta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Delta
    • Delta
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Cory
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Eckert
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Grand Mesa
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Grand Mesa is located in Delta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Mesa
    • Orchard City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Orchard City is located in Delta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,242 people
    • Austin
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Cedaredge
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Kannah ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kannah.

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

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

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

  • Whitewater Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • IOOF & Masonic Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Memorial Gardens of the Valley
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • IOOF Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Crown Point Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Glade Park Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Elmwood Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Mesa Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • 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>
  • Delta Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Memory Gardens Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Mesa View Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Pea Green Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Cory Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)

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

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

  • Whitewater
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Clifton
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Dominguez
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Dominguez is located in Delta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dominguez
  • Grand Junction
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Escalante
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Escalante is located in Delta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escalante
  • Cameo
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cameo is located in Mesa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cameo
  • Roubideau
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Roubideau is located in Delta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roubideau
  • Fruita
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Mesa
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Delta
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Chipeta
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Chipeta is located in Delta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chipeta
  • De Beque
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Kannah. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kannah.

Newspapers Published in Kannah ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kannah.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Kannah:

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