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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 Cleveland (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 Cleveland. 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 doctors 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.

Cleveland is located in Emery County.

To see how the shape of Utah's counties 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 Cleveland. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cleveland:

  • Emery County     (The home county of Cleveland)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cleveland, with the one closest to Cleveland listed first.
    • Elmo
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elmo have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
      • Elmo is located in Emery County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 410 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elmo <2>
    • Desert Lake ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Lawrence ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Huntington
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Victor ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Mohrland ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Castle Dale
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Shanty Town ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Orangeville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Wilsonville ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Clawson
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clawson have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clawson
      • Clawson is located in Emery County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 190 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clawson <2>
    • Cedar ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cedar. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar
      • Cedar is located in Emery County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Cedar
      • From Cleveland to Cedar
    • Molen
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Molen. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Molen
      • Molen is located in Emery County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Molen
      • From Cleveland to Molen
  • Carbon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cleveland, with the one closest to Cleveland listed first.
    • Hiawatha
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Wellington
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Wattis ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Wattis. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wattis
      • Wattis is located in Carbon County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Wattis
      • From Cleveland to Wattis
    • Price
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Price have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Price
      • Price is located in Carbon County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,427 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Price <2>
    • Spring Glen
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Coal City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Helper
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Kenilworth
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Kiz ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Kiz. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiz
      • Kiz is located in Carbon County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Kiz
      • From Cleveland to Kiz
    • Heiner ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Heiner. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heiner
      • Heiner is located in Carbon County
      • Former names for Heiner:
      • Carbon
      • Panther
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Heiner
      • From Cleveland to Heiner
    • Peerless ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Spring Canyon ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Spring Canyon. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Canyon
      • Spring Canyon is located in Carbon County
      • Spring Canyon has also been known as:
      • Storrs
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Spring Canyon
      • From Cleveland to Spring Canyon
    • Standardville ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Cleveland ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cleveland.

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 Cleveland covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cleveland, with the one closest to Cleveland 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.<5>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Cleveland had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Cleveland had a population of 442 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Cleveland ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cleveland.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cleveland, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cleveland.

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 websites either 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 Cleveland:

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

The official website for Emery County: www.co.emery.ut.us/

The official website for State of Utah: https://www.utah.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>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.
<5>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 Cleveland, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Cleveland) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cleveland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3489, Longitude: -110.8520    









 

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