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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 Loma Linda (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 Loma Linda. 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 hospitals 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.

Loma Linda is located in La Plata 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 La Plata County: Archuleta, Dolores, Hinsdale, Montezuma, San Juan & San Juan (NM).

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

  • La Plata County     (The home county of Loma Linda)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Loma Linda, with the one closest to Loma Linda listed first.
    • Florida
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Florida is located in La Plata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida
    • Carbon Junction
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Carbon Junction is located in La Plata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbon Junction
    • Durango
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Gem Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Gem Village is located in La Plata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gem Village
    • Bayfield
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Ignacio
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Bondad
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Bondad is located in La Plata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bondad
    • Hermosa
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Hermosa is located in La Plata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermosa
    • Fort Lewis ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Fort Lewis is located in La Plata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Lewis
    • Hesperus
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Vallecito
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • La Boca
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • La Boca is located in La Plata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Boca
  • Archuleta County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Loma Linda, with the one closest to Loma Linda listed first.
    • Arboles
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Chimney Rock
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Montezuma County
    • Mancos
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Mancos is located in Montezuma County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mancos
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,398 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mancos <1>
  • San Juan County (NM)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Loma Linda, with the one closest to Loma Linda listed first.
    • Aztec
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Aztec is located in San Juan County (NM)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aztec
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,332 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Aztec <1>
    • Navajo Dam
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • La Plata
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Loma Linda ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Loma Linda.

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 Loma Linda - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Crestview Memorial Garden
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Animas Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Green Mtn. Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Greenmount Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenmount Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Greenmount Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Durango.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1013065 <2>
  • Bayfield Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Shreck Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Elco Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Ouray Memorial Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Hesperus Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Hermosa Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Kline Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Marvel Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • La Boca Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Hay Gulch Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Tiffany Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 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 Loma Linda in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Loma Linda.

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

  • Durango
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Trimble
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Trimble is located in La Plata County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trimble
  • Ignacio
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Fort Lewis ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Fort Lewis is located in La Plata County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Lewis
  • Hermosa
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Hermosa is located in La Plata County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermosa
  • Rockwood
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Rockwood is located in La Plata County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockwood
  • La Boca
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • La Boca is located in La Plata County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Boca
  • Arboles
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Piedra
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Piedra is located in Archuleta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piedra
  • Rosa ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Rosa is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosa
  • La Plata
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Aztec
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Aztec is located in San Juan County (NM)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aztec
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,332 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Aztec <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Loma Linda ...

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 63 newspapers that have been published in the area around Loma Linda.

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

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 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 Loma Linda:

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