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Introduction ...

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

We've added Iosepa to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Iosepa, 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 Iosepa (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 Iosepa. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Iosepa is historic, it would have been located within present day Tooele 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 Tooele County: Elko (NV), White Pine (NV), Box Elder, Davis, Juab, Salt Lake, Utah & Weber.

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

  • Tooele County     (The home county of Iosepa)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Iosepa, with the one closest to Iosepa listed first.
    • Grantsville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grantsville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grantsville
      • Grantsville is located in Tooele County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,409 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grantsville <3>
    • Rowley Junction ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rowley Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowley Junction
      • Rowley Junction is located in Tooele County
      • Former names for Rowley Junction:
      • Rowley
      • Spring Valley
      • Timpie
    • Delle
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delle
      • Delle is located in Tooele County
    • Orr's Ranch
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Orr's Ranch. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orr's Ranch
      • Orr's Ranch is located in Tooele County
      • Orr's Ranch has also been known as:
      • Orr Ranch
      • Orr's
    • Terra
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terra
      • Terra is located in Tooele County
    • Burmester
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burmester
      • Burmester is located in Tooele County
    • Slagtown ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Slagtown. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slagtown
      • Slagtown is located in Tooele County
      • Former name for Slagtown:
      • Martinville
      • Slagtown has also been known as:
      • Rush Lake
    • Aragonite ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aragonite
      • Aragonite is located in Tooele County
      • Aragonite has also been known as:
      • Hastings Pass
    • Low ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Low have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Low
      • Low is located in Tooele County
    • Rush Valley
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rush Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rush Valley
      • Rush Valley is located in Tooele County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 490 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rush Valley <3>
    • Bauer
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bauer
      • Bauer is located in Tooele County
    • Stockton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Clover
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover
      • Clover is located in Tooele County
      • Former names for Clover:
      • Johnson
      • Johnson's Settlement
      • Shambip
  • Salt Lake County
    • Highland Boy ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Highland Boy. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Boy
      • Highland Boy is located in Salt Lake County
  • Utah County
    • Lincoln
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
      • Lincoln is located in Utah County

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

Newspapers Published in Iosepa ...

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 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around Iosepa.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Iosepa, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Iosepa.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Iosepa:

Cemeteries Near Iosepa ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Iosepa.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Iosepa, with the one closest to Iosepa 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 Iosepa in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Iosepa.

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

  • Grantsville
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grantsville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grantsville
    • Grantsville is located in Tooele County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,409 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grantsville <3>
  • Saint John
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint John have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint John
    • Saint John is located in Tooele County
  • Rush Valley
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rush Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rush Valley
    • Rush Valley is located in Tooele County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 490 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rush Valley <3>
  • Stockton
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Tooele
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Erda
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Erda have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erda
    • Erda is located in Tooele County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Erda <3>
  • Mills Junction
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mills Junction
    • Mills Junction is located in Tooele County
    • Former names for Mills Junction:
    • Milltown
    • Millvale
    • Milton
    • Richville
  • Ajax ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ajax
    • Ajax is located in Tooele County
    • Former name for Ajax:
    • Center
  • Lake Point
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Point
    • Lake Point is located in Tooele County
  • Ophir
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ophir
    • Ophir is located in Tooele County
    • Estimated population in 2017: 57 people

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

The official website for Tooele County: www.co.tooele.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 Iosepa, 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 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Iosepa) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Iosepa. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5423, Longitude: -112.7343       In this case, the coordinates for Iosepa 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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