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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 Wellington (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 Wellington. 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 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.

Wellington is located in 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 Wellington. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wellington:

  • Carbon County     (The home county of Wellington)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wellington, with the one closest to Wellington listed first.
    • Price
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Price have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 <2>
    • Kenilworth
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Kiz ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Kiz. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiz
      • Kiz is located in Carbon County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Kiz
      • From Wellington to Kiz
    • Spring Glen
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Helper
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Heiner ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Heiner. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heiner
      • Heiner is located in Carbon County
      • Former names for Heiner:
      • Carbon
      • Panther
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Heiner
      • From Wellington to Heiner
    • Peerless ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Spring Canyon ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Spring Canyon. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Canyon
      • Spring Canyon is located in Carbon County
      • Spring Canyon has also been known as:
      • Storrs
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Spring Canyon
      • From Wellington to Spring Canyon
    • Castle Gate ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Latuda ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • 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.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latuda
      • Latuda is located in Carbon County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Latuda
      • From Wellington to Latuda
    • Standardville ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Hiawatha
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Wattis ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Wattis. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wattis
      • Wattis is located in Carbon County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Wattis
      • From Wellington to Wattis
  • Emery County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wellington, with the one closest to Wellington listed first.
    • Victor ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Desert Lake ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Elmo
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elmo have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
      • Elmo is located in Emery County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 410 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elmo <2>
    • Cleveland
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Mohrland ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Cedar ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cedar. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar
      • Cedar is located in Emery County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Cedar
      • From Wellington to Cedar
    • Huntington
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Lawrence ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Grassy ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Grassy. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassy
      • Grassy is located in Emery County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Grassy
      • From Wellington to Grassy
    • Shanty Town ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Hale ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hale. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale
      • Hale is located in Emery County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Hale
      • From Wellington to Hale
    • Connellsville ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Castle Dale
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Sanpete County
  • Utah County
    • Colton ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • 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.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colton
      • Colton is located in Utah County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Colton
      • From Wellington to Colton

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

Cemeteries Near Wellington ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wellington.

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

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Wellington ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wellington.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wellington, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wellington.

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 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 Wellington:

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<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 Wellington, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 from Point A (ie- Wellington) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wellington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5425, Longitude: -110.7341    









 

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