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Introduction ...

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

We've added Watercress Junction to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Watercress Junction, 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 Watercress Junction (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 Watercress Junction. 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 Watercress Junction ...

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.

Watercress Junction has also been known as: Watercress.

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 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 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 Watercress Junction is historic, it would have been located within present day Box Elder 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 Box Elder County: Cassia (ID), Oneida (ID), Elko (NV), Cache, Tooele & Weber.

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

  • Box Elder County     (The home county of Watercress Junction)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Watercress Junction, with the one closest to Watercress Junction listed first.
    • Terrace ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Bovine
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bovine. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bovine
      • Bovine is located in Box Elder County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Bovine
      • From Watercress Junction to Bovine
    • Jackson ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Pigeon
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Pigeon. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon
      • Pigeon is located in Box Elder County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Pigeon
      • From Watercress Junction to Pigeon
    • Grouse Creek Junction
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Russian Settlement ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Lucin ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lucin. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucin
      • Lucin is located in Box Elder County
      • Lucin has also been known as:
      • Umbria Junction
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Lucin
      • From Watercress Junction to Lucin
    • Grouse Creek
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Boston Terrace ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Rosette
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Etna
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Etna. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
      • Etna is located in Box Elder County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Etna
      • From Watercress Junction to Etna
    • Park Valley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Hogup
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hogup. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogup
      • Hogup is located in Box Elder County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Hogup
      • From Watercress Junction to Hogup

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

Cemeteries Near Watercress Junction ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Watercress Junction.

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

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

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

  • Terrace ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Bovine
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bovine. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bovine
    • Bovine is located in Box Elder County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Bovine
    • From Watercress Junction to Bovine
  • Matlin
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Matlin have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matlin
    • Matlin is located in Box Elder County
  • Lucin ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lucin. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucin
    • Lucin is located in Box Elder County
    • Lucin has also been known as:
    • Umbria Junction
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Lucin
    • From Watercress Junction to Lucin
  • Grouse Creek
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Rosette
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Park Valley
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Tecoma ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tecoma have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tecoma
    • Tecoma is located in Elko County (NV)
  • Kelton ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Kelton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelton
    • Kelton is located in Box Elder County
    • Former name for Kelton:
    • Indian Creek
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Kelton
    • From Watercress Junction to Kelton

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

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 Watercress Junction:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

The official website for Box Elder County: www.boxeldercounty.org/

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 Watercress Junction, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>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- Watercress Junction) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Watercress Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.4875, Longitude: -113.5583    
<6>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.




 

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