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Introduction ...

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

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

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 Grass Creek (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 Grass Creek. 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 Grass Creek ...

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 Grass Creek: Grass Crk. (or less commonly used: Grass Ck. or Grass Cr.)

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 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 Grass Creek is historic, it would have been located within present day Summit 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 Summit County: Daggett, Duchesne, Morgan, Rich, Salt Lake, Wasatch, Sweetwater (WY) & Uinta (WY).

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

  • Summit County     (The home county of Grass Creek)
  • Davis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grass Creek, with the one closest to Grass Creek listed first.
    • Aegean Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Aegean Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aegean Village
      • Aegean Village is located in Davis County
    • Benchmark Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Benchmark Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benchmark Village
      • Benchmark Village is located in Davis County
    • Centerville Fort ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Centerville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Cottonwood Heights
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cottonwood Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood Heights
      • Cottonwood Heights is located in Davis County
    • Farmington Fort ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Bountiful Fort ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
    • Bountiful
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
    • Center Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Center Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Village
      • Center Village is located in Davis County
    • Chase Lane Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chase Lane Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chase Lane Village
      • Chase Lane Village is located in Davis County
    • Farmington
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Farmington have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmington
      • Farmington is located in Davis County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 25,387 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Farmington <3>
    • Fruit Heights
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fruit Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruit Heights
      • Fruit Heights is located in Davis County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,216 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fruit Heights <3>
  • Morgan County
  • Salt Lake County
  • Wasatch County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grass Creek, with the one closest to Grass Creek listed first.
    • Hideout
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hideout have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hideout
      • Hideout is located in Wasatch County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,254 people
    • Cranmer
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cranmer. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cranmer
      • Cranmer is located in Wasatch County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Cranmer
      • From Grass Creek to Cranmer
    • Keetley ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Keetley. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keetley
      • Keetley is located in Wasatch County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Keetley
      • From Grass Creek to Keetley
    • Hailstone ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hailstone. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hailstone
      • Hailstone is located in Wasatch County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Hailstone
      • From Grass Creek to Hailstone
    • Jordanelle
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Weber County
  • Uinta County (WY)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grass Creek, with the one closest to Grass Creek listed first.
    • Evanston
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hilliard
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hilliard. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilliard
      • Hilliard is located in Uinta County (WY)
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Hilliard
      • From Grass Creek to Hilliard
    • Almy ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Almy. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almy
      • Almy is located in Uinta County (WY)
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Almy
      • From Grass Creek to Almy

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

Cemeteries Near Grass Creek ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Grass Creek.

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

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

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Grass Creek ...

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 Grass Creek.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Grass Creek, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Grass Creek.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Grass Creek:

The official website for Summit County: www.co.summit.ut.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Grass Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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- Grass Creek) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Grass Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.9901, Longitude: -111.3155       In this case, the coordinates for Grass Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>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.




 

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