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 Dutch John (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 Dutch John. 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 southwest 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 south.
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 south 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.
Dutch John is located in Daggett 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 Daggett County: Moffat (CO), Duchesne, Summit, Uintah & Sweetwater (WY).
Below are the counties that are near Dutch John. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dutch John:
- Daggett County (The home county of Dutch John)
- The following are listed by their distance from Dutch John, with the one closest to Dutch John listed first.
- Greendale ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest) - Swett Ranch ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Swett Ranch. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swett Ranch
- Swett Ranch is located in Daggett County
- Linwood ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west) - Manila
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manila
- Manila is located in Daggett County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 335 people
- Former names for Manila:
- Chambers
- Lewisallen
- Lucerne
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manila <2>
- Uintah County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dutch John, with the one closest to Dutch John listed first.
- Dyer ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest) - Bullionville ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bullionville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullionville
- Bullionville is located in Uintah County
- Dry Fork
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Fork
- Dry Fork is located in Uintah County
- Sweetwater County (WY)
- The following are listed by their distance from Dutch John, with the one closest to Dutch John listed first.
- Washam
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west) - McKinnon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dutch John, see our County-by-County Page for Dutch John.
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 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 Dutch John:
- Websites specific to Utah
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the //archives.utah.gov/
- Pages specific to Daggett County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Uintah County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Sweetwater County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Uintah County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Utah
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Utah
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Utah
- Cemeteries of Daggett County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Utah
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Utah
Cemeteries Near Dutch John ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dutch John.
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 Dutch John covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dutch John, with the one closest to Dutch John listed first.
- William's Family Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the William's Family Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2583536 <4>
- John Jarvis Ranch Historic Site
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the John Jarvis Ranch Historic Site
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2188081 <4>
- Manila Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Manila Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #77319 <4>
- Dowds Gravesite
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dowds Gravesite
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #77200 <4>
- McKinnon Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the McKinnon Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McKinnon Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84075 <4>
- Lodore Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- The Lodore Cemetery has also been known as:
- Browns Park Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lodore Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2223843 <4>
- Dry Fork Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- To give a relative sense of its location, the Dry Fork Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<5> to the southeast of Vernal.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dry Fork Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #77201 <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.<6>
While we didn't find Dutch John in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dutch John.
- Washam
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dutch John. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dutch John.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Dutch John. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Utah: https://www.utah.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Dutch John) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dutch John. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.9307, Longitude: -109.3915 |
| <6> | 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 Dutch John, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |