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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 Living Springs (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 Living Springs. 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.

Name Variations for Living Springs ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Living Springs: Living Spgs. (or less commonly used: Living Spngs. or Living Sprngs.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Living Springs. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Living Springs.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 and 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.

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

  • Adams County     (The home county of Living Springs)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Living Springs, with the one closest to Living Springs listed first.
    • Comanche ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Comanche is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comanche
    • Strasburg
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Bennett
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Cabin Creek
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Cabin Creek is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabin Creek
    • Watkins
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Shamrock
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Shamrock is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shamrock
    • Commerce City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Brighton
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Friendly Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Friendly Village is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendly Village
    • Hillcrest Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Hillcrest Village is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest Village
    • Henderson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
    • Todd Creek
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Todd Creek is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Todd Creek
  • Arapahoe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Living Springs, with the one closest to Living Springs listed first.
    • Byers
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Deer Trail
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Altura
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Altura is located in Arapahoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altura
    • Somerset Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Somerset Village is located in Arapahoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset Village
    • Aurora
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Aurora is located in Arapahoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 387,377 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Aurora <1>
    • Sableridge
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Sableridge is located in Arapahoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sableridge
    • Settlers Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Settlers Village is located in Arapahoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Settlers Village
  • Denver County
  • Morgan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Living Springs, with the one closest to Living Springs listed first.
    • Hoyt
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Hoyt is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoyt
    • Wiggins
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Twelvemile Corner
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Twelvemile Corner is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twelvemile Corner
  • Weld County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Living Springs, with the one closest to Living Springs listed first.
    • Johnson
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Johnson is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson
    • Keenesburg
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Roggen
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Hudson
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Lochbuie
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Lochbuie is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lochbuie
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,885 people
    • Dearfield ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Dearfield is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dearfield
    • Aristocrat Ranchettes
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Wattenberg
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Wattenberg is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wattenberg
    • Fort Lupton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Living Springs ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Living Springs.

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 Living Springs - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Mt. View Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Remember The Ten Crash Site Memorial
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Byers Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • 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>
  • Woolsey Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Hoyt Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Running Creek Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Adena Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Olinger Eastlawn Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olinger Eastlawn Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Olinger Eastlawn Cemetery is located in Thornton.
    • The Olinger Eastlawn Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Eastlawn Memorial Gardens
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57246 <2>
  • St. Simeon Catholic Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jolly Family Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Fairview Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Wiggins Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Black Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)

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

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

  • Byers
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Roggen
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Hudson
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Deer Trail
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Aurora
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Aurora is located in Arapahoe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 387,377 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Aurora <1>
  • Masters
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Masters is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masters

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

Newspapers Published in Living Springs ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Living Springs.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Living Springs, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Living Springs.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Living Springs:

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