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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 Stoneham (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 Stoneham. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Stoneham is located in Weld 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 Weld County: Adams, Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Kimball (NE) & Laramie (WY).

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

  • Weld County     (The home county of Stoneham)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stoneham, with the one closest to Stoneham listed first.
    • Raymer
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Raymer is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymer
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 120 people
      • Raymer has also been known as:
      • New Raymer
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Raymer <1>
    • Avalo
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Avalo is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avalo
      • Former name for Avalo:
      • Greasewood Flats
    • Keota
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Keota is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keota
    • Sligo ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Sligo is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sligo
  • Logan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stoneham, with the one closest to Stoneham listed first.
    • Willard ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Willard is located in Logan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willard
    • Merino
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Atwood
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Sterling
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Padroni
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Buchanan ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Buchanan is located in Logan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buchanan
  • Morgan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stoneham, with the one closest to Stoneham listed first.
    • Snyder
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Hillrose
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Brush
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Weldona
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Log Lane Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Log Lane Village is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Log Lane Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 848 people
    • Fort Morgan
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Orchard
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Washington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stoneham, with the one closest to Stoneham listed first.
    • Messex
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Messex is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Messex
    • Midway ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Midway is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
    • Pinneo ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Pinneo is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinneo

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

Cemeteries Near Stoneham ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stoneham.

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

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

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

  • Prairie View Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Raymer Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Prairie Lawn Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Liberty Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Merino Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Keota Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Christian Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christian Cemetery
    • The Christian Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Horst Cemetery
  • Brush Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • J. L. Brush Memorial Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Presbyterian Church Columbarium
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Eben - Ezer Lutheran Care Center Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Weldona Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Riverside Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Stoneham had a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Raymer
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Raymer is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymer
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 120 people
    • Raymer has also been known as:
    • New Raymer
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Raymer <1>
  • Willard ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Willard is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willard
  • Buckingham ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Buckingham is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckingham
  • Balzac
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Balzac is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balzac
  • Merino
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Atwood
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Keota
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Keota is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keota
  • Brush
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Sterling
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Fort Morgan
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Goodrich
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Goodrich is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodrich
  • Sligo ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Sligo is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sligo
  • Pinneo ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Pinneo is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinneo

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

Newspapers Published in Stoneham ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stoneham.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Stoneham, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Stoneham.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Stoneham:

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>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 Stoneham, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Stoneham) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.