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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 Pagoda (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 Pagoda. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

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

  • Routt County     (The home county of Pagoda)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pagoda, with the one closest to Pagoda listed first.
    • Hayden
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Milner
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milner
      • Milner is located in Routt County
    • Oak Creek
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Phippsburg
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Trull ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • 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
    • Yampa
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Sidney
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
      • Sidney is located in Routt County
  • Moffat County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pagoda, with the one closest to Pagoda listed first.
    • Hamilton
      (10 miles [16.1 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>
    • Craig
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • 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>

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

Newspapers Published in Pagoda ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pagoda.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Pagoda:

Cemeteries Near Pagoda ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pagoda.

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 Pagoda covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Pagoda Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Buckner - Hart Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • 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
  • Craig Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • 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>
  • Hayden Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Iles Grove Burial Site
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Iles Grove Burial Site. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Iles Grove Burial Site is located 14 miles [22.5 km]<4> to the northeast of Craig.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Iles Grove Burial Site
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2484909 <5>
  • Hayden Pioneer Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Oak Creek Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Yampa Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • The Yampa Cemetery has also been known as:
    • South Routt Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yampa Cemetery
  • Elk Mtn. Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Deep Creek Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 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.<6>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Pagoda had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Hayden
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Craig
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • 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>
  • Buford
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buford
    • Buford is located in Rio Blanco County
  • Trull ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • 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

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Pagoda. 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pagoda) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pagoda. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3369, Longitude: -107.4158    
<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 Pagoda, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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