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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 Leader (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 Leader. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Leader is located in Adams 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 Adams County: Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, Jefferson, Morgan, Washington & Weld.

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

  • Adams County     (The home county of Leader)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Leader, with the one closest to Leader listed first.
    • Cabin Creek
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Cabin Creek is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabin Creek
    • Shamrock
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Shamrock is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shamrock
    • Comanche ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Comanche is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comanche
    • Strasburg
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Bennett
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Watkins
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Arapahoe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Leader, with the one closest to Leader listed first.
    • Byers
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Deer Trail
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Elbert County
  • Morgan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Leader, with the one closest to Leader listed first.
    • Hoyt
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Hoyt is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoyt
    • Twelvemile Corner
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Twelvemile Corner is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twelvemile Corner
    • Wiggins
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Fort Morgan
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Log Lane Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Log Lane Village is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Log Lane Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 848 people
    • Orchard
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Washington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Leader, with the one closest to Leader listed first.
    • Woodrow
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Last Chance
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Last Chance is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Last Chance
  • Weld County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Leader, with the one closest to Leader listed first.
    • Johnson
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Johnson is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson
    • Roggen
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Keenesburg
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Dearfield ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Dearfield is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dearfield

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

Cemeteries Near Leader ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Leader.

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

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

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

  • Woolsey Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Hoyt Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Adena Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Remember The Ten Crash Site Memorial
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Byers Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byers Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Byers Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Byers.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #163031 <2>
  • Jolly Family Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Mt. View Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Swan Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Wiggins Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
  • Presbyterian Church Columbarium
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Weldona 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.<3>

While we didn't find Leader in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Leader.

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

  • Byers
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Deer Trail
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Roggen
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Fort Morgan
    (27 miles [43.5 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 Leader. See our List of 1890's Communities around Leader.

Newspapers Published in Leader ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Leader.

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

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 Leader:

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