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Chaffee County Colorado
Genealogy and History


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Please consider sharing you family data so that we can make this website a great resource for the researchers of Colorado.

We're looking to add the transcribed data from the vital records, biographies from the county histories as well as the county history information itself, transcriptions of obituaries, burial data from cemetery trompings and/or readings, the data from military pensions and other service records; enumerations from census years, any newspaper gleanings for the family members including birth announcements, marriage announcements, death notices/obits and anything in between - in short, the data you used to build your family tree (rather than the tree itself since we don't have the space or manpower to accept gedcoms and trees)

Chaffee County, named after Jerome Chaffee, was created out of the southern portion of Lake County on February 10, 1879.

Salida, founded in 1880, is the county seat of Chaffee County, Colorado.

Populated Places

Alpine * Americus * Arbourville * Babcock * Belleview
Browns Canon * Buena Vista * Bullion City * Centerville * Cleora * Futurity
Garfield * Granite * Greens Gulch * Hancock * Hartsville
Hartz * Hortense * Iron City * Jennings * Johnson Village
Maysville * Nathrop * Newett * Poncha Springs * Princeton * Riverside * Rockdale
Romley * Saint Elmo * Salida * Smeltertown
Stonewall * Swan * Turret * Vicksburg * Winfield

Online Data

Births

Church Histories / Records

County Records

Death Records

Family Bibles

County History

Marriages

Miscellaneous Data

School Records

Wills/Probate Records

Website Updates:
Nov 2012: bios for ARMSTRONG, CRAIG, ROLLER, WALKER, ANKELE, JOHNSON
Oct 2012: 1885 Census Mortality Schedule; 1883 Pensioners on the Roll
Nov. 2011: CARSON obit

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