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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 Trapper (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 Trapper. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Trapper is located in Routt 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 Routt County: Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco & Carbon (WY).

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

  • Routt County     (The home county of Trapper)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trapper, with the one closest to Trapper listed first.
    • Yampa
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Toponas
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Egeria
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Egeria. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egeria
      • Egeria is located in Routt County
    • Phippsburg
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Oak Creek
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Sidney
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
      • Sidney is located in Routt County
    • Steamboat Springs
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Milner
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milner
      • Milner is located in Routt County
    • Trull ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Trull. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trull
      • Trull is located in Routt County
  • Eagle County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trapper, with the one closest to Trapper listed first.
    • Burns
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Burns. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burns
      • Burns is located in Eagle County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Burns <1>
    • McCoy
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCoy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCoy
      • McCoy is located in Eagle County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McCoy <1>
    • Bond
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Wolcott
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wolcott have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolcott
      • Wolcott is located in Eagle County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wolcott <1>
  • Grand County
    • Kremmling
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Trapper ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Trapper.

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

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

  • Yampa Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yampa Cemetery
    • The Yampa Cemetery has also been known as:
    • South Routt Cemetery
  • Adams Family Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Adams Family Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Adams Family Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
  • Oak Creek Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • McCoy Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McCoy Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McCoy Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Sheephorn Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sheephorn Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sheephorn Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Kremmling Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kremmling Cemetery
    • The Kremmling Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Riverside Cemetery
  • Steamboat Springs Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)

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

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

  • Toponas
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Egeria
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Egeria. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egeria
    • Egeria is located in Routt County
  • McCoy
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCoy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCoy
    • McCoy is located in Eagle County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McCoy <1>
  • Sidney
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
    • Sidney is located in Routt County
  • Kremmling
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Steamboat Springs
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Wolcott
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wolcott have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolcott
    • Wolcott is located in Eagle County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wolcott <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Trapper ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Trapper.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Trapper, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Trapper.

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 Trapper:

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

The official website for Routt County: www.co.routt.co.us/

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

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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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 Trapper, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>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- Trapper) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Trapper. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1039, Longitude: -106.8798       In this case, the coordinates for Trapper have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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