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 Wellington (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 Wellington. 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.
Wellington is located in Larimer 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 Larimer County: Boulder, Grand, Jackson, Weld, Albany (WY) & Laramie (WY).
Below are the counties that are near Wellington. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wellington:
- Larimer County (The home county of Wellington)
- The following are listed by their distance from Wellington, with the one closest to Wellington listed first.
- Waverly
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Waverly is located in Larimer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waverly
- Bulger
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Bulger is located in Larimer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulger
- Laporte
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Fort Collins
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Bellvue
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Timnath
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Livermore
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Stout ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Stout is located in Larimer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stout
- Kerns
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Kerns is located in Larimer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerns
- Horsetooth Heights
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Horsetooth Heights is located in Larimer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horsetooth Heights
- Masonville
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Loveland
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Stove Prairie Landing
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Weld County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wellington, with the one closest to Wellington listed first.
- Nunn
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Dover
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Dover is located in Weld County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
- Pierce
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Severance
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Carr
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Windsor
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Windsor is located in Weld County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor
- Population from the 2020 Census: 27,659 people
- Former names for Windsor:
- New Liberty
- New Windsor
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Windsor <1>
- Ault
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Eaton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Lucerne
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Greeley
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Johnstown
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Galeton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Garden City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Garden City is located in Weld County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 279 people
- Laramie County (WY)
- The following are listed by their distance from Wellington, with the one closest to Wellington listed first.
- Speer
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Speer is located in Laramie County (WY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speer
- Granite Canon
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Granite Canon is located in Laramie County (WY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite Canon
- South Greeley
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- South Greeley is located in Laramie County (WY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Greeley
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Wellington, see our County-by-County Page for Wellington.
Cemeteries Near Wellington ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wellington.
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 Wellington - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Wellington covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wellington, with the one closest to Wellington listed first.
- Highland Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Reu Family Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Roselawn Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Laporte Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Grandview Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Timnath Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- U S Soldier Grave
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Buckeye Ranch Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Eddie Hale Grave
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Mountain View Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the northeast of Nunn.
- Harmony Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Lory State Park Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (58 more) ...
- Bardwell Family Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Kinnison Family Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Lamb Family Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
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 Wellington in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Wellington.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Wellington, with the one closest to Wellington listed first.
- Laporte
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Fort Collins
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Bellvue
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Timnath
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Dover
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Dover is located in Weld County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
- Stout ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Stout is located in Larimer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stout
- Livermore
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Pierce
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Carr
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Windsor
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Windsor is located in Weld County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor
- Population from the 2020 Census: 27,659 people
- Former names for Windsor:
- New Liberty
- New Windsor
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Windsor <1>
- Eaton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Loveland
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- Greeley
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Virginia Dale
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Hillsboro
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Hillsboro is located in Weld County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Wellington. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wellington.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Wellington ...
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 Wellington.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Wellington. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Wellington and those printed in the larger area surrounding Wellington.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Wellington.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Wellington:
- Websites specific to Colorado
- Pages specific to Larimer County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Weld County
- Laramie County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Colorado
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> | 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. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Wellington) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Wellington, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |