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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 Lonetree (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 Lonetree. 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 northwest 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 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 west 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.

Lonetree is located in Archuleta 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 Archuleta County: Conejos, Hinsdale, La Plata, Mineral, Rio Grande, Rio Arriba (NM) & San Juan (NM).

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

  • Archuleta County     (The home county of Lonetree)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lonetree, with the one closest to Lonetree listed first.
    • Chimney Rock
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Gato
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Gato is located in Archuleta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gato
    • Trujillo
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Trujillo is located in Archuleta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trujillo
    • Juanita ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Juanita is located in Archuleta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juanita
    • Pagosa Springs
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Arboles
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Chromo
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • La Plata County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lonetree, with the one closest to Lonetree listed first.
    • Allison
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Allison is located in La Plata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allison
    • Bayfield
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Gem Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Gem Village is located in La Plata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gem Village
    • Ignacio
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Vallecito
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • La Boca
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • La Boca is located in La Plata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Boca
  • Rio Arriba County (NM)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lonetree, with the one closest to Lonetree listed first.
    • Navajo
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Navajo is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo
    • Dulce
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Lumberton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Lumberton is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lumberton
    • Monero
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Monero is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monero

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

Cemeteries Near Lonetree ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lonetree.

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

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

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

  • Altura Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Pagosa Juction Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Trujillo Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Juanita Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Hilltop Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hilltop Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Pagosa Springs.
    • The Hilltop Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pagosa Springs Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57341 <3>
  • Carracas Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Eoff Ranch Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • New Rosa Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Martinez Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Wirt Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • White Ranch Family Cemetery
    • The White Ranch Family Cemetery is located on private property - be sure to secure permission before visiting.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Ranch Family Cemetery
    • The White Ranch Family Cemetery has also been known as:
    • White Spring Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2484263 <3>
  • Gomez Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Allison Tiffany Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Tiffany Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • McCoy Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)

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.<4>

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

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

  • Juanita ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Juanita is located in Archuleta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juanita
  • Pagosa Springs
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Piedra
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Piedra is located in Archuleta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piedra
  • Carracas
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Carracas is located in Archuleta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carracas
  • Arboles
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Navajo
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Navajo is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo
  • Rosa ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Rosa is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosa
  • Dulce
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Chromo
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Amargo
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Amargo is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amargo
  • Monero
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Monero is located in Rio Arriba County (NM)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monero
  • Ignacio
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • La Boca
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • La Boca is located in La Plata County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Boca

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

Newspapers Published in Lonetree ...

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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lonetree.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lonetree, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lonetree.

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 Lonetree:

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>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- Lonetree) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Lonetree, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.