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 Tobe (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 Tobe. 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 and hospitals 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.

Tobe is located in Las Animas 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 Las Animas County: Baca, Bent, Costilla, Huerfano, Otero, Pueblo, Colfax (NM) & Union (NM).

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

• Las Animas County     (The home county of Tobe)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Tobe, with the one closest to Tobe listed first.
  • Villegreen
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villegreen
    • Villegreen is located in Las Animas County
  • Troy ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Troy. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
    • Troy is located in Las Animas County
  • Kim
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kim have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kim
    • Kim is located in Las Animas County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 70 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kim <3>
  • Branson
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branson
    • Branson is located in Las Animas County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 72 people
    • Former name for Branson:
    • Wilson's Switch
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Branson <3>
  • Trinchera
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trinchera
    • Trinchera is located in Las Animas County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Trinchera <3>
• Union County (NM)
  • Folsom
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Folsom have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Folsom
    • Folsom is located in Union County (NM)
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 53 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Folsom <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Tobe ...

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 8 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tobe.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tobe, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tobe.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Tobe:

• Websites specific to Colorado
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //www.colorado.gov/archives/

• Pages specific to Las Animas County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Union County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Colorado
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Colorado
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Colorado
  • Cemeteries of Las Animas County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Colorado
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Colorado
  • Cemeteries of Las Animas County

Cemeteries Near Tobe ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tobe.

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

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

• Parker Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Parker Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Parker Cemetery
• Plum Valley Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Plum Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plum Valley Cemetery
• Kim Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kim Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kim Cemetery
• Pleasant View Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant View Cemetery
• Crespin Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Crespin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crespin Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57231 <5>
• Edenview Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Edenview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Edenview Cemetery
• Johnson Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Johnson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johnson Cemetery
• Mountain View Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57449 <5>
• Cejita Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cejita Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57210 <5>
• Mestas Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mestas Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mestas Cemetery
• Emery Gap Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Emery Gap Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the north of Branson.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Emery Gap Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2365208 <5>
• Andrix Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Andrix Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Andrix Cemetery
• Continue List   (10 more) ...
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cedar Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cedar Hill Cemetery
  • Los Hermanos Penitentes Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Los Hermanos Penitentes Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Los Hermanos Penitentes Cemetery
  • Romero Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Romero Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Romero Cemetery

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>

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

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

• Troy ‑ Historic
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Troy. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
  • Troy is located in Las Animas County
• Trinchera
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trinchera
  • Trinchera is located in Las Animas County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Trinchera <3>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Tobe. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Las Animas County: www.tlac.net/county/

The official website for State of Colorado: https://www.colorado.gov/