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 Antelope Valley - Crestview (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 Antelope Valley - Crestview. 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.

Name Variations for Antelope Valley - Crestview ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Antelope Valley - Crestview: Antelope Vly. Crestview (or less commonly used: Antelope Vally. Crestview or Antelope Vlly. Crestview)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Antelope Valley - Crestview is located in Campbell County.

To see how the shape of Wyoming's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Campbell County: Powder River (MT), Converse, Crook, Johnson, Sheridan & Weston.

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

• Campbell County     (The home county of Antelope Valley - Crestview)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Antelope Valley - Crestview, with the one closest to Antelope Valley - Crestview listed first.
  • Sleepy Hollow
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sleepy Hollow have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sleepy Hollow
    • Sleepy Hollow is located in Campbell County
  • Collins Heights
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins Heights
    • Collins Heights is located in Campbell County
  • Gillette
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillette
    • Gillette is located in Campbell County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 32,220 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gillette <2>
  • Rozet
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rozet
    • Rozet is located in Campbell County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rozet <2>
  • Pleasantdale
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasantdale
    • Pleasantdale is located in Campbell County
  • Adon
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adon
    • Adon is located in Campbell County
• Crook County
  • Moorcroft
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moorcroft
    • Moorcroft is located in Crook County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,084 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moorcroft <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Antelope Valley - Crestview ...

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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around Antelope Valley - Crestview.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Antelope Valley - Crestview, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Antelope Valley - Crestview.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Antelope Valley - Crestview:

• Websites specific to Wyoming
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Wyoming State Archives

• Pages specific to Campbell County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Crook County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Wyoming
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Wyoming
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Wyoming
  • Cemeteries of Campbell County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Wyoming
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Wyoming

Cemeteries Near Antelope Valley - Crestview ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Antelope Valley - Crestview.

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 Antelope Valley - Crestview covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Antelope Valley - Crestview, with the one closest to Antelope Valley - Crestview listed first.

• Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84088 <4>
• Bethlehem Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethlehem Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2197059 <4>
• Rozet Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rozet Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2196698 <4>
• Pleasant Valley Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84102 <4>
• Moorcroft Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moorcroft Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2130357 <4>
• Kintz Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kintz Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84058 <4>

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.<5>

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

These communities are listed based on their distance from Antelope Valley - Crestview, with the one closest to Antelope Valley - Crestview listed first.

• Gillette
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillette
  • Gillette is located in Campbell County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 32,220 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gillette <2>
• Moorcroft
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moorcroft
  • Moorcroft is located in Crook County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,084 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moorcroft <2>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Campbell County: www.ccg.co.campbell.wy.us/

The official website for State of Wyoming: www.wyo.gov/