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 Colchester (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 Colchester. 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.
Colchester is located in Chittenden County.
To see how the shape of Vermont's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chittenden County: Clinton (NY), Essex (NY), Addison, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille & Washington.
Below are the counties that are near Colchester. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Colchester:
- Chittenden County (The home county of Colchester)
- The following are listed by their distance from Colchester, with the one closest to Colchester listed first.
- Malletts Bay
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Malletts Bay is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malletts Bay
- Malletts Bay has also been known as:
- Malets Bay
- Maletts Bay
- Colchester
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Winooski
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Checkerberry Village
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Checkerberry Village is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Checkerberry Village
- Burlington
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Pages Corner
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Pages Corner is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pages Corner
- Milton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Milton is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,907 people
- Essex Junction
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Essex Junction is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essex Junction
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,793 people
- Milton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Essex
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Essex is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essex
- Population from the 2020 Census: 21,839 people
- Queen City Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Queen City Park is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queen City Park
- Essex Center
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Essex Center is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essex Center
- Addison County
- The following are listed by their distance from Colchester, with the one closest to Colchester listed first.
- North Ferrisburgh
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- North Ferrisburgh Station
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Monkton
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Monkton is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monkton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,106 people
- Ferrisburg
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Ferrisburg is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferrisburg
- Ferrisburgh
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Ferrisburgh is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferrisburgh
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,691 people
- Starksboro
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Starksboro
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Starksboro is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Starksboro
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,756 people
- Vergennes
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Panton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Panton is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 718 people
- South Starksboro
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- South Starksboro is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Starksboro
- Jerusalem
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jerusalem is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerusalem
- Bristol
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Bristol is located in Addison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bristol
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,838 people
- Franklin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Colchester, with the one closest to Colchester listed first.
- West Georgia
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- West Georgia is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Georgia
- East Georgia
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- East Georgia is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Georgia
- Georgia Plains
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Georgia Plains is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgia Plains
- Georgia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Georgia is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,806 people
- Fairfax
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Fairfax is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfax
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,917 people
- Oakland
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Oakland is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland
- North Fairfax
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- North Fairfax is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fairfax
- Binghamville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Binghamville is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Binghamville
- Saint Albans
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Saint Albans is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Albans
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,540 people
- Saint Albans
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Fletcher
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Fletcher is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,348 people
- Fairfield
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Grand Isle County
- The following are listed by their distance from Colchester, with the one closest to Colchester listed first.
- South Hero
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- South Hero is located in Grand Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Hero
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,639 people
- Keeler Bay
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Keeler Bay is located in Grand Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keeler Bay
- Pearl
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Pearl is located in Grand Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearl
- Grand Isle
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Grand Isle is located in Grand Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Isle
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,115 people
- Adams Landing
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Adams Landing is located in Grand Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams Landing
- North Hero
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- North Hero
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- North Hero is located in Grand Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hero
- Population from the 2020 Census: 807 people
- Isle La Motte
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Isle La Motte is located in Grand Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isle La Motte
- Population from the 2020 Census: 493 people
- Isle la Motte
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Alburg Center
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Alburg Center is located in Grand Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alburg Center
- Alburg
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Alburg is located in Grand Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alburg
- Estimated population in 2011: 1,986 people
- Alburg
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Alburg is located in Grand Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alburg
- Estimated population in 2012: 499 people
- Lamoille County
- The following are listed by their distance from Colchester, with the one closest to Colchester listed first.
- Cambridge
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Cambridge
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Cambridge is located in Lamoille County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,817 people
- Jeffersonville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Stowe
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Stowe is located in Lamoille County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stowe
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,447 people
- Moscow
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Waterville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Waterville is located in Lamoille County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 701 people
- Johnson
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Johnson is located in Lamoille County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,619 people
- Johnson
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Lower Village
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Lower Village is located in Lamoille County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Village
- Stowe
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Belvidere Junction
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Belvidere Junction is located in Lamoille County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere Junction
- Belvidere
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Belvidere is located in Lamoille County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere
- Washington County
- The following are listed by their distance from Colchester, with the one closest to Colchester listed first.
- Waterbury
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Waterbury is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,160 people
- Duxbury
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Duxbury is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duxbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,307 people
- Fayston
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mill Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mill Village is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village
- Waterbury
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- North Fayston
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- North Fayston is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fayston
- Clinton County (NY)
- The following are listed by their distance from Colchester, with the one closest to Colchester listed first.
- Ausable Chasm
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Ausable Chasm is located in Clinton County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ausable Chasm
- Village of Keeseville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Village of Keeseville is located in Clinton County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village of Keeseville
- Estimated population in 2015: 1,750 people
- Cumberland Head
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Cumberland Head is located in Clinton County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumberland Head
- Parc
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Parc is located in Clinton County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parc
- Laphams Mills
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Laphams Mills is located in Clinton County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laphams Mills
- Plattsburgh
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Peru
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Point Au Roche
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Point Au Roche is located in Clinton County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Au Roche
- Harkness
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Harkness is located in Clinton County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harkness
- Morrisonville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Beekmantown
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Beekmantown is located in Clinton County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beekmantown
- Ingraham
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Ingraham is located in Clinton County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingraham
- Essex County (NY)
- The following are listed by their distance from Colchester, with the one closest to Colchester listed first.
- Port Kent
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Port Douglass
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Port Douglass is located in Essex County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Douglass
- Willsboro Point
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Willsboro Point is located in Essex County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willsboro Point
- Keeseville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Willsboro
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Craterclub
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Craterclub is located in Essex County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craterclub
- Reber
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Reber is located in Essex County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reber
- Whallonsburg
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Whallonsburg is located in Essex County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whallonsburg
- North Jay
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- North Jay is located in Essex County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Jay
- Lewis
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Lewis is located in Essex County (NY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewis
- Jay
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Westport
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Colchester, see our County-by-County Page for Colchester.
Cemeteries Near Colchester ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Colchester.
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 Colchester - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Colchester covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Colchester, with the one closest to Colchester listed first.
- Malletts Bay Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Holy Cross Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Munson Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Champlain Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Ohavi Zedek Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Mt. Calvary Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Center Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Lakeview Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Greenmount Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Mt. Calvary Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- St. Stephens Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Episcopal Diocese Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Continue List (341 more) ...
- Elmwood Ave. Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmwood Ave. Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Elmwood Ave. Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Burlington.
- The Elmwood Ave. Cemetery has also been known as:
- Elmwood Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2166979 <3>
- St. Joseph Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Greenmount Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
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 Colchester in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Colchester.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Colchester, with the one closest to Colchester listed first.
- Malletts Bay
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Malletts Bay is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malletts Bay
- Malletts Bay has also been known as:
- Malets Bay
- Maletts Bay
- Colchester
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Winooski
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Burlington
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- West Milton
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- West Milton is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Milton
- Essex Junction
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Essex Junction is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essex Junction
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,793 people
- Milton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- South Hero
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Essex Center
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Essex Center is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essex Center
- Keeler Bay
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Keeler Bay is located in Grand Isle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keeler Bay
- Miltonboro
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Miltonboro is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miltonboro
- Port Kent
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Williston
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- North Williston
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- North Williston is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Williston
- Westford
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Westford is located in Chittenden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westford
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Colchester. See our List of 1890's Communities around Colchester.
Newspapers Published in Colchester ...
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 60 newspapers that have been published in the area around Colchester.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Colchester, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Colchester.
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 Colchester:
- Websites specific to Vermont
- Pages specific to Chittenden County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Addison County
- Franklin County
- Grand Isle County
- Lamoille County
- Washington County
- Clinton County
- Essex County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Vermont
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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Colchester) 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 Colchester, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |