Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Fish Springs. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Fish Springs to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Fish Springs, please Contact Us.

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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 Fish Springs (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 Fish Springs. 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 Fish Springs ...

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.

Another variation: Fishsprings.

• A typical abbreviation for Fish Springs: Fish Spgs. (or less commonly used: Fish Spngs. or Fish Sprngs.)

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 hospitals and doctors 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Fish Springs is historic, it would have been located within present day Juab 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 Juab County: White Pine (NV), Millard, Sanpete, Tooele & Utah.

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

• Juab County     (The home county of Fish Springs)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Fish Springs, with the one closest to Fish Springs listed first.
  • Black Rock Station ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Black Rock Station. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Rock Station
    • Black Rock Station is located in Juab County
    • Black Rock Station has also been known as:
    • Rock House Station
  • Boyd Station ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Boyd Station. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyd Station
    • Boyd Station is located in Juab County
  • Callao
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Callao have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Callao
    • Callao is located in Juab County
    • Callao has also been known as:
    • Willow Springs Station
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Callao <4>
  • Dugway Station ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Dugway Station. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dugway Station
    • Dugway Station is located in Juab County
  • Trout Creek
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trout Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trout Creek
    • Trout Creek is located in Juab County
  • Joy ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Joy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joy
    • Joy is located in Juab County
  • Partoun
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Partoun
    • Partoun is located in Juab County
• Tooele County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Fish Springs, with the one closest to Fish Springs listed first.
  • Canyon Station ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Canyon Station. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Station
    • Canyon Station is located in Tooele County
  • Clifton ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
    • Clifton is located in Tooele County

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

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 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 Fish Springs:

• 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 Juab County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

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

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

Cemeteries Near Fish Springs ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fish Springs.

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).

• Callao Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Callao Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #77166 <5>

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.

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

• Trout Creek
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trout Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trout Creek
  • Trout Creek is located in Juab County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Juab County: www.co.juab.ut.us/

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