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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 Clawson (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 Clawson. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Clawson is located in Emery County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Emery County: Carbon, Grand, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Uintah & Wayne.

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

  • Emery County     (The home county of Clawson)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clawson, with the one closest to Clawson listed first.
    • Molen
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Molen is located in Emery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Molen
    • Ferron
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Orangeville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Wilsonville ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Wilsonville is located in Emery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsonville
    • Castle Dale
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Huntington
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Lawrence ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Lawrence is located in Emery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawrence
    • Emery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Shanty Town ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Shanty Town is located in Emery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shanty Town
    • Cleveland
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Mohrland ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Mohrland is located in Emery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohrland
    • Elmo
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Desert Lake ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Desert Lake is located in Emery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert Lake
  • Carbon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clawson, with the one closest to Clawson listed first.
    • Hiawatha
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Hiawatha is located in Carbon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hiawatha
    • Wattis ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Wattis is located in Carbon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wattis
  • Sanpete County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clawson, with the one closest to Clawson listed first.
    • Ephraim
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Ephraim is located in Sanpete County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ephraim
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,385 people
      • Former names for Ephraim:
      • Cottonwood
      • Fort Ephraim
      • Pine Creek
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ephraim <1>
    • Fort Manti ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Fort Manti is located in Sanpete County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Manti
      • Former names for Fort Manti:
      • Little Stone Fort
      • Manti Log Fort
    • Manti
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Manti is located in Sanpete County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manti
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,790 people
      • Former name for Manti:
      • Copenhagen
      • Manti has also been known as:
      • Manti City
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manti <1>
    • Morrison ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Morrison is located in Sanpete County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrison

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

Cemeteries Near Clawson ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Clawson.

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

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

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

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.<3>

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

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

  • Ferron
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Orangeville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Castle Dale
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Lawrence ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Lawrence is located in Emery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawrence
  • Huntington
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Emery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Cleveland
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Clawson ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Clawson.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Clawson, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Clawson.

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 helpful 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 Clawson:

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>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 Clawson, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Clawson) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.