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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 Kinikinik (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 Kinikinik. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Kinikinik is located in Larimer 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 Larimer County: Boulder, Grand, Jackson, Weld, Albany (WY) & Laramie (WY).

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

  • Larimer County     (The home county of Kinikinik)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kinikinik, with the one closest to Kinikinik listed first.
    • Manhattan ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Manhattan is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manhattan
    • Rustic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Rustic is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rustic
    • Red Feather Lakes
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Stove Prairie Landing
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Glen Haven
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Estes Park
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Virginia Dale
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Livermore
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Drake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Bellvue
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Grand County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kinikinik, with the one closest to Kinikinik listed first.
    • Lulu City ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Lulu City is located in Grand County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lulu City
    • Dutchtown ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Dutchtown is located in Grand County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutchtown
  • Jackson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kinikinik, with the one closest to Kinikinik listed first.
    • Gould ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Gould is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gould
    • Teller City ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Teller City is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teller City
    • Old Homestead
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Old Homestead is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Homestead
    • Walden
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Kings Canyon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Kings Canyon is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Canyon
    • Rand
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Brownlee ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Brownlee is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownlee
  • Albany County (WY)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kinikinik, with the one closest to Kinikinik listed first.
    • Hermosa
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Hermosa is located in Albany County (WY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermosa
    • Tie Siding
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jelm
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Kinikinik ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kinikinik.

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

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

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

  • Charles E Williams Grave
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Campbell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Fairkytes Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Poudre Canyon Chapel Columbariun
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Pickens' Point Memorials
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Manhattan Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Cabin Creek Grave
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Robinson Ranch Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Levi Yockey Grave
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Swanson Memorial Garden
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Wangnild Family Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Great Stupa Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (64 more) ...
    • Black Mtn. Ranch Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Pingree Park Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Edward Halliday Grave
      (12 miles [19.3 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 Kinikinik in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kinikinik.

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

  • Manhattan ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Manhattan is located in Larimer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manhattan
  • Estes Park
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Virginia Dale
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Livermore
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Tie Siding
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Walden
    (28 miles [45.1 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 Kinikinik. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kinikinik.

Newspapers Published in Kinikinik ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kinikinik.

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

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 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 Kinikinik:

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 Kinikinik, 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 from Point A (ie- Kinikinik) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.