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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 Sugar City (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 Sugar City. 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 and doctors 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.

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

  • Crowley County     (The home county of Sugar City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sugar City, with the one closest to Sugar City listed first.
    • Ordway
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Crowley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Olney Springs
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Bent County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sugar City, with the one closest to Sugar City listed first.
    • Las Animas
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Fort Lyon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Kiowa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sugar City, with the one closest to Sugar City listed first.
    • Arlington
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Haswell
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Otero County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sugar City, with the one closest to Sugar City listed first.
    • Rocky Ford
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Cheraw
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Manzanola
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Swink
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • La Junta Village
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • La Junta Village is located in Otero County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Junta Village
    • Hawley
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Hawley is located in Otero County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawley
    • La Junta
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Fowler
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Benton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Benton is located in Otero County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton

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

Cemeteries Near Sugar City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sugar City.

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 Sugar City - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Valley View Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • 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]<2> to the north of Ordway.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57604 <3>
  • Holbrook Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Hillcrest Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Valley View Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Olney Springs Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Manzanola Mountainview Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Mt. View Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvary Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Calvary Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of La Junta.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2146283 <3>
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Arlington Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...
    • Sand Arroyo Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Otero County Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Fowler Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)

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 Sugar City in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sugar City.

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

  • Rocky Ford
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • La Junta
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Arlington
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Fowler
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Benton
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Benton is located in Otero County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton
  • Las Animas
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Nepesta
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Nepesta is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nepesta
  • Timpas
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Timpas is located in Otero County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timpas

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Sugar City ...

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 Sugar City.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Sugar City. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Sugar City and those printed in the larger area surrounding Sugar City.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> of Sugar City.

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 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 Sugar City:

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sugar City) 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 Sugar City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.