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 Sheridan Lake (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 Sheridan Lake. 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 Sheridan Lake ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Sheridan Lake: Sheridan Lk.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Sheridan Lake. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sheridan Lake.
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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Sheridan Lake is located in Kiowa 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 Kiowa County: Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Lincoln, Otero, Prowers & Greeley (KS).
Below are the counties that are near Sheridan Lake. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sheridan Lake:
- Kiowa County (The home county of Sheridan Lake)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sheridan Lake, with the one closest to Sheridan Lake listed first.
- Water Valley
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Water Valley is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water Valley
- Chivington
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Chivington is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chivington
- Eads
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Bent County
- Big Bend
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Big Bend is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bend
- Cheyenne County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sheridan Lake, with the one closest to Sheridan Lake listed first.
- Cheyenne Wells
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Arapahoe
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Firstview
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Firstview is located in Cheyenne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Firstview
- Prowers County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sheridan Lake, with the one closest to Sheridan Lake listed first.
- Hartman
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Granada
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Grote
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Grote is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grote
- Kornman
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Kornman is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kornman
- Holly
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Greeley County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sheridan Lake, with the one closest to Sheridan Lake listed first.
- Kanco ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Kanco is located in Greeley County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanco
- Horace
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Horace is located in Greeley County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horace
- Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
- Tribune
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Sheridan Lake, see our County-by-County Page for Sheridan Lake.
Cemeteries Near Sheridan Lake ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sheridan Lake.
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 Sheridan Lake - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Sheridan Lake covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sheridan Lake, with the one closest to Sheridan Lake listed first.
- Sheridan Lake Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Plainview Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Water Valley Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Towner Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Chivington Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- France Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Mathews Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- G.A.R. Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for G.A.R. Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the G.A.R. Cemetery is located 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the west of Tribune (KS).
- The G.A.R. Cemetery has also been known as:
- Rodgers Cemetery
- Rogers Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #93519 <3>
- Sunnyslope Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Fairview Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Fairview Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Cheyenne Wells.
- The Fairview Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cheyenne Wells Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57276 <3>
- Hartman Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Eads Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Stockholm Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Eads Pioneer Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eads Pioneer Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Eads Pioneer Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Eads.
- The Eads Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Eads Old Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2307806 <3>
- Amity Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Sheridan Lake had a population of 207 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Sheridan Lake had a population of 88 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Sheridan Lake, with the one closest to Sheridan Lake listed first.
- Stuart
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Stuart is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stuart
- Brandon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Brandon is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandon
- Water Valley
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Water Valley is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water Valley
- Towner
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Towner is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Towner
- Chivington
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Chivington is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chivington
- Astor
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Astor is located in Greeley County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Astor
- Cheyenne Wells
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Eads
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Carlton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Carlton is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Granada
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Horace
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Horace is located in Greeley County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horace
- Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
- Firstview
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Firstview is located in Cheyenne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Firstview
- Holly
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Tribune
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sheridan Lake. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sheridan Lake.
Newspapers Published in Sheridan Lake ...
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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sheridan Lake.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sheridan Lake, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sheridan Lake.
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 Sheridan Lake:
- Websites specific to Colorado
- Pages specific to Kiowa County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Bent County
- Cheyenne County
- Prowers County
- Greeley County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Colorado
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 '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- Sheridan Lake) 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 Sheridan Lake, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |