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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 Mountain Home (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 Mountain Home. 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 Mountain Home ...

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 Mountain Home: Mtn. Home

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 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.

Mountain Home is located in Duchesne 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 Duchesne County: Carbon, Daggett, Summit, Uintah, Utah & Wasatch.

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

  • Duchesne County     (The home county of Mountain Home)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Home, with the one closest to Mountain Home listed first.
    • Boneta
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Boneta. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boneta
      • Boneta is located in Duchesne County
    • Altonah
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altonah
      • Altonah is located in Duchesne County
      • Former name for Altonah:
      • Queen City
    • Talmage
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Talmage. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talmage
      • Talmage is located in Duchesne County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Talmage <2>
    • Altamont
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Mount Emmons
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mount Emmons. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Emmons
      • Mount Emmons is located in Duchesne County
    • Bluebell
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Utahn ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Utahn. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utahn
      • Utahn is located in Duchesne County
    • Upalco
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upalco
      • Upalco is located in Duchesne County
    • Arcadia
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcadia
      • Arcadia is located in Duchesne County
      • Former name for Arcadia:
      • Red Cap
    • Duchesne
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duchesne
      • Duchesne is located in Duchesne County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,725 people
      • Former names for Duchesne:
      • Dora
      • Theodore
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Duchesne <2>
    • Ioka
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ioka. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ioka
      • Ioka is located in Duchesne County
    • Tabiona
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Bridgeland
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bridgeland. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeland
      • Bridgeland is located in Duchesne County
  • Uintah County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Home, with the one closest to Mountain Home listed first.
    • Hayden
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayden
      • Hayden is located in Uintah County
    • Ballard
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballard
      • Ballard is located in Uintah County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,105 people
    • Bennett
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bennett. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
      • Bennett is located in Uintah County
    • Whiterocks
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Independence ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Independence. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independence
      • Independence is located in Uintah County
    • Fort Duchesne
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Tridell
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Gusher
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Mountain Home ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mountain Home.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Mountain Home, with the one closest to Mountain Home listed first.

  • Boneta - Mountain Home Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Talmage Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Altamont - Mt. Emmons Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Altonah Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Bluebell Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Utahn Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Upalco Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Upalco Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Upalco Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Upalco.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #77477 <3>
  • Theodore Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Strawberry Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Duchesne City Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Old Ioka Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Ioka Cemetery
    • The Old Ioka Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Ioka West Cemetery
  • Tabiona - Redcliff Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...

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 Mountain Home in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Mountain Home.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Mountain Home ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mountain Home.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mountain Home, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mountain Home.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Mountain Home:

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

The official website for Duchesne County: www.duchesnegov.net/

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 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.
<4>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 from Point A (ie- Mountain Home) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mountain Home. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3991, Longitude: -110.3885       In this case, the coordinates for Mountain Home have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Mountain Home, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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