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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 Pultney (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 Pultney. 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 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.

Pultney is located in Crowley 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 Crowley County: El Paso, Kiowa, Lincoln, Otero & Pueblo.

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

  • Crowley County     (The home county of Pultney)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pultney, with the one closest to Pultney listed first.
    • Olney Springs
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Crowley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Ordway
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Sugar City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Otero County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pultney, with the one closest to Pultney listed first.
    • Fowler
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Manzanola
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Rocky Ford
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Hawley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Hawley is located in Otero County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawley
    • Swink
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Benton
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Benton is located in Otero County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton
    • Cheraw
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • La Junta Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • La Junta Village is located in Otero County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Junta Village
    • La Junta
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Pueblo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pultney, with the one closest to Pultney listed first.
    • Boone
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Fort Reynolds
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Fort Reynolds is located in Pueblo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Reynolds
    • Avondale
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Nyberg
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Nyberg is located in Pueblo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nyberg
    • Vineland
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Vineland is located in Pueblo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vineland
    • Lombard Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Lombard Village is located in Pueblo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lombard Village
    • Salt Creek
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Salt Creek is located in Pueblo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Creek

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

Cemeteries Near Pultney ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pultney.

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

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

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

  • Fowler Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Olney Springs Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Manzanola Mountainview Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Mt. View Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • San Jose Church Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Valley View Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley View Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Valley View Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the north of Ordway.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57604 <2>
  • Hillcrest Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Valley View Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Doyle Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Finn Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Leader Church Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Holbrook Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Timpas Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 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.<4>

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

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

  • Fowler
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Nepesta
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Nepesta is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nepesta
  • Boone
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Rocky Ford
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Nyberg
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Nyberg is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nyberg
  • Baxter
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Baxter is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxter
  • Benton
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Benton is located in Otero County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton
  • Timpas
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Timpas is located in Otero County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timpas
  • Salt Creek
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Salt Creek is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Creek

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

Newspapers Published in Pultney ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pultney.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pultney, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pultney.

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 Pultney:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pultney) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Pultney, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.