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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Old Mountain View. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Old Mountain View to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Old Mountain View, please Contact Us.

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 Old Mountain View (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 Old Mountain View. 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 Old Mountain View ...

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 occur.

Another variation: Old Mountainview.

  • A typical abbreviation for Old Mountain View: Old Mtn. Vw. (or less commonly used: Old Mntn. Vw.)

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.

Although our information shows that the community of Old Mountain View is historic, it would have been located within present day El Paso 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 El Paso County: Crowley, Douglas, Elbert, Fremont, Lincoln, Pueblo & Teller.

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

  • El Paso County     (The home county of Old Mountain View)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Old Mountain View, with the one closest to Old Mountain View listed first.
    • Manitou Springs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Cascade
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Chipita Park
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Green Mountain Falls
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Crystola
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Crystola is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystola
    • Colorado Springs
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Colorado Springs is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colorado Springs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 482,131 people
      • Former names for Colorado Springs:
      • El Paso
      • Fountain Colony
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Colorado Springs <2>
    • Kelker
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Kelker is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelker
    • Stratmoor
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Stratmoor is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stratmoor
    • Fort Carson
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Cimarron Hills
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Widefield
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Gleneagle
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Gleneagle is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gleneagle
    • Black Forest
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Douglas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Old Mountain View, with the one closest to Old Mountain View listed first.
    • Westcreek
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Westcreek is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westcreek
    • Larkspur
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Perry Park
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Perry Park is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perry Park
  • Fremont County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Old Mountain View, with the one closest to Old Mountain View listed first.
    • Penrose
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Canon City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Brookside
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Brookside is located in Fremont County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookside
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 261 people
    • Buckskin Joe
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Buckskin Joe is located in Fremont County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckskin Joe
    • Lincoln Park
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Lincoln Park is located in Fremont County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Park
  • Park County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Old Mountain View, with the one closest to Old Mountain View listed first.
    • Lake George
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Guffey
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Pueblo County
    • Stone City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Stone City is located in Pueblo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone City
  • Teller County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Old Mountain View, with the one closest to Old Mountain View listed first.
    • Goldfield
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Goldfield is located in Teller County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldfield
    • Independence ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Independence is located in Teller County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independence
    • Woodland Park
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Divide
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Cripple Creek
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Victor
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Florissant
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Old Mountain View ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Old Mountain View.

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 Old Mountain View - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Crystal Valley Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Gillett Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Helen Hunt Jackson Memorial
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Jackson Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Paupers' Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Pioneer Park Memorial
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Park Memorial
    • The Pioneer Park Memorial has also been known as:
    • Mesa Cemetery
  • Bouma / Briggs Grave
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Sons of Israel Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen Cemetery
    • The Evergreen Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Mt. Washington Cemetery
    • Mountain Home Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57264 <3>
  • Shrine of Rest Mausoleum
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Mt. St. Francis Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. St. Francis Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. St. Francis Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<4> to the north of Colorado Springs.
    • The Mt. St. Francis Cemetery has also been known as:
    • St. Francis Cemetery
  • Continue List   (34 more) ...
    • Spring Creek Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Woodland Park Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Rooks Family Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)

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.

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

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

  • Manitou Springs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Green Mountain Falls
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Ivywild
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Ivywild is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivywild
  • Colorado Springs
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Colorado Springs is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colorado Springs
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 482,131 people
    • Former names for Colorado Springs:
    • El Paso
    • Fountain Colony
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Colorado Springs <2>
  • Pikeview
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Pikeview is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pikeview
  • Kelker
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Kelker is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelker
  • Elsmere
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Elsmere is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elsmere
  • Widefield
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Fountain
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Monument
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Palmer Lake
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Falcon
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Lake George
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Buttes
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Buttes is located in El Paso County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buttes
    • Greenland
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Greenland is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenland

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

Newspapers Published in Old Mountain View ...

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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Old Mountain View.

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

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 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 Old Mountain View:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Old Mountain View, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Old Mountain View) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.