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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 Middleton (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 Middleton. 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 doctors and 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.

Middleton is located in Washington 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 Washington County: Mohave (AZ), Lincoln (NV), Iron & Kane.

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

  • Washington County     (The home county of Middleton)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Middleton, with the one closest to Middleton listed first.
    • Washington
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Washington Fields
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Washington Fields. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Fields
      • Washington Fields is located in Washington County
    • Saint George
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Tonaquint ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Tonaquint. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonaquint
      • Tonaquint is located in Washington County
      • Tonaquint has also been known as:
      • Lick Skillet
      • Lower Clara
      • Seldom Stop
    • Bloomington
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomington
      • Bloomington is located in Washington County
      • Former name for Bloomington:
      • Saint James
    • Price City ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Price City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Price City
      • Price City is located in Washington County
      • Price City has also been known as:
      • Price
    • Fort Clara ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Clara
      • Fort Clara is located in Washington County
      • Fort Clara has also been known as:
      • Fort Santa Clara
    • Santa Clara
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Atkinville ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atkinville
      • Atkinville is located in Washington County
    • Ivins
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivins
      • Ivins is located in Washington County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,665 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ivins <1>
    • Harrisburg ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisburg
      • Harrisburg is located in Washington County
      • Former names for Harrisburg:
      • Cottonwood
      • Harrisville
    • Fort Pearce ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Pearce
      • Fort Pearce is located in Washington County
  • Mohave County (AZ)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Middleton, with the one closest to Middleton listed first.
    • Beaver Dam
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Littlefield
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Middleton ...

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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Middleton.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Middleton, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Middleton.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Middleton:

Cemeteries Near Middleton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Middleton.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Middleton, with the one closest to Middleton 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>

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

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

  • Saint George
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Washington
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Santa Clara
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Silver Reef ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Reef
    • Silver Reef is located in Washington County
  • Gunlock
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Pine Valley
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Virgin
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Rockville
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • New Harmony
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Pinto
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinto
    • Pinto is located in Washington County
  • Hamblin ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hamblin. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamblin
    • Hamblin is located in Washington County

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

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

The official website for Washington County: www.washco.state.ut.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Middleton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Middleton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1208, Longitude: -113.5408       In this case, the coordinates for Middleton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Middleton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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