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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 Wendover (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 Wendover. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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.

Wendover is located in Tooele 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 Tooele County: Elko (NV), White Pine (NV), Box Elder, Davis, Juab, Salt Lake, Utah & Weber.

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

  • Tooele County     (The home county of Wendover)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wendover, with the one closest to Wendover listed first.
    • Blair
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Salduro ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Salduro. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salduro
      • Salduro is located in Tooele County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Salduro
      • From Wendover to Salduro
    • Arinosa ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Barro
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Barro. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barro
      • Barro is located in Tooele County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Barro
      • From Wendover to Barro
  • Elko County (NV)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wendover, with the one closest to Wendover listed first.
    • West Wendover
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Shafter ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Shafter. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shafter
      • Shafter is located in Elko County (NV)
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Shafter
      • From Wendover to Shafter
    • Hogan ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hogan. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogan
      • Hogan is located in Elko County (NV)
      • Hogan has also been known as:
      • Hogen
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Hogan
      • From Wendover to Hogan

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

Cemeteries Near Wendover ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wendover.

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Wendover ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wendover.

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 Wendover:

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

The official website for Tooele County: www.co.tooele.ut.us/

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.




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 29 Apr 2025