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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 Mount Harris (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 Mount Harris. 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 Mount Harris ...

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.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Mount Harris: Mt. Harris

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 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.

Mount Harris is located in Routt County.

To see how the shape of Colorado's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Routt County: Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco & Carbon (WY).

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

  • Routt County     (The home county of Mount Harris)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mount Harris, with the one closest to Mount Harris listed first.
    • Milner
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milner
      • Milner is located in Routt County
    • Hayden
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Trull ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Trull. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trull
      • Trull is located in Routt County
    • Mad Creek
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mad Creek
      • Mad Creek is located in Routt County
    • Sidney
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
      • Sidney is located in Routt County
    • Steamboat Springs
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Oak Creek
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Pagoda
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pagoda
      • Pagoda is located in Routt County
    • Clark
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Glen Eden
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Eden
      • Glen Eden is located in Routt County
    • Phippsburg
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Hahns Peak
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hahns Peak
      • Hahns Peak is located in Routt County
  • Moffat County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mount Harris, with the one closest to Mount Harris listed first.
    • Craig
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig
      • Craig is located in Moffat County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,953 people
      • Former names for Craig:
      • Rosedale
      • Yampa
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Craig <1>
    • Hamilton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hamilton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton
      • Hamilton is located in Moffat County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hamilton <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Mount Harris ...

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 17 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mount Harris.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mount Harris, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mount Harris.

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 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 Mount Harris:

Cemeteries Near Mount Harris ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mount Harris.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Hayden Pioneer Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Hayden Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Elk Mtn. Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Deep Creek Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Steamboat Springs Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Pagoda Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Buckner - Hart Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Buckner - Hart Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Buckner - Hart Cemetery
  • Oak Creek Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Clark Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Craig Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Craig Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Craig.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Craig Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1094806 <5>
    • Yampa Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • The Yampa Cemetery has also been known as:
      • South Routt Cemetery
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yampa Cemetery
    • Adams Family Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Adams Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Adams Family Cemetery
    • Hahns Peak Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hahns Peak Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Hahns Peak.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hahns Peak Cemetery

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.<6>

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

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

  • Hayden
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Trull ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Trull. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trull
    • Trull is located in Routt County
  • Sidney
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
    • Sidney is located in Routt County
  • Steamboat Springs
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Pagoda
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pagoda
    • Pagoda is located in Routt County
  • Clark
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Craig
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig
    • Craig is located in Moffat County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,953 people
    • Former names for Craig:
    • Rosedale
    • Yampa
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Craig <1>
  • Hahns Peak
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hahns Peak
    • Hahns Peak is located in Routt County

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Mount Harris. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Routt County: www.co.routt.co.us/

The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/

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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Mount Harris) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mount Harris. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4836, Longitude: -107.1448       In this case, the coordinates for Mount Harris have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.
<6>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 Mount Harris, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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