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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Trump. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Trump to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Trump, please Contact Us.

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 Trump (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 Trump. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Trump is historic, it would have been located within present day Park 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 Park County: Chaffee, Clear Creek, Douglas, Fremont, Jefferson, Lake, Summit & Teller.

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

  • Park County     (The home county of Trump)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trump, with the one closest to Trump listed first.
    • Hartsel
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Pike - San Isabel Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Guffey
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Lake George
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Fairplay
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Horseshoe ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Horseshoe is located in Park County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horseshoe
  • Chaffee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trump, with the one closest to Trump listed first.
    • Nathrop
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Johnson Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Turret ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Turret is located in Chaffee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turret
    • Buena Vista
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Americus
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Americus is located in Chaffee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Americus
    • Browns Canon
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Browns Canon is located in Chaffee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browns Canon
    • Belleview
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Belleview is located in Chaffee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belleview
    • Salida
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Pine Creek
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Pine Creek is located in Chaffee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Creek
    • Cleora
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Cleora is located in Chaffee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleora
    • Poncha Springs
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Granite
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Fremont County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trump, with the one closest to Trump listed first.
    • Wellsville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Wellsville is located in Fremont County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellsville
    • Howard
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Calcite ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Calcite is located in Fremont County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calcite
  • Lake County
    • Low Pass ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Low Pass is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Low Pass
  • Teller County

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

Cemeteries Near Trump ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Trump.

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

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

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

  • Hartsel Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Buffalo Springs Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Centerville Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Mt. Olivet Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Rocky Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Lake George Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Woodlawn Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Cleora Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Farnum Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Fairplay Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Old Fairplay Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Fourmile Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Poncha Springs Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Florissant Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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.

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

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

  • Haver ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Haver is located in Park County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haver
  • Hartsel
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Nathrop
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Garo ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Garo is located in Park County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garo
  • Buena Vista
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Americus
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Americus is located in Chaffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Americus
  • Browns Canon
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Browns Canon is located in Chaffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browns Canon
  • Riverside
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Riverside is located in Chaffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
  • Belleview
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Belleview is located in Chaffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belleview
  • Salida
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Lake George
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Pine Creek
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Pine Creek is located in Chaffee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Creek
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Cleora
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Cleora is located in Chaffee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleora
    • Wellsville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Wellsville is located in Fremont County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellsville
    • Alpine ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Alpine is located in Chaffee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine

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

Newspapers Published in Trump ...

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 52 newspapers that have been published in the area around Trump.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Trump, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Trump.

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 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 Trump:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Trump, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Trump) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.