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Introduction ...

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

We've added Wattis to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Wattis, 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 Wattis (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 Wattis. 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 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 Wattis is historic, it would have been located within present day Carbon 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 Carbon County: Duchesne, Emery, Grand, Sanpete & Utah.

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

  • Carbon County     (The home county of Wattis)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wattis, with the one closest to Wattis listed first.
    • Hiawatha
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Coal City
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Clear Creek
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Consumers ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Consumers. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Consumers
      • Consumers is located in Carbon County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Consumers
      • From Wattis to Consumers
    • National ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for National. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for National
      • National is located in Carbon County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to National
      • From Wattis to National
    • Sweet ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sweet. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet
      • Sweet is located in Carbon County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Sweet
      • From Wattis to Sweet
    • Latuda ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Latuda. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latuda
      • Latuda is located in Carbon County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Latuda
      • From Wattis to Latuda
    • Mutual ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mutual. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mutual
      • Mutual is located in Carbon County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Mutual
      • From Wattis to Mutual
    • Rains ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Rains. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rains
      • Rains is located in Carbon County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Rains
      • From Wattis to Rains
    • Peerless ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Price
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Price have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Price
      • Price is located in Carbon County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,427 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Price <4>
    • Spring Glen
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Emery County
  • Sanpete County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wattis, with the one closest to Wattis listed first.
    • Beaver Dams
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Fairview
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Fairview is located in Sanpete County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,381 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fairview <4>
    • Mount Pleasant
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Spring City Fort ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Spring City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Chester
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chester have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester
      • Chester is located in Sanpete County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chester <4>
    • Moroni Fort ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Moroni Fort. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moroni Fort
      • Moroni Fort is located in Sanpete County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Moroni Fort
      • From Wattis to Moroni Fort
    • Moroni
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Utah County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wattis, with the one closest to Wattis listed first.
    • Colton ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Colton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colton
      • Colton is located in Utah County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Colton
      • From Wattis to Colton
    • Tucker ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Tucker. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tucker
      • Tucker is located in Utah County
      • Former name for Tucker:
      • Clear Creek
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Tucker
      • From Wattis to Tucker
  • Wasatch County

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

Cemeteries Near Wattis ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wattis.

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

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Wattis ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wattis.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wattis, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wattis.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Wattis:

The official website for Carbon County: www.carboncountyutah.com/

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 Wattis, 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>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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- Wattis) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wattis. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5298, Longitude: -111.0180       In this case, the coordinates for Wattis have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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