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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 Boulder Flats (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 Boulder Flats. 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 Boulder Flats ...

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 Boulder Flats: Boulder Flts.

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 northeast 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 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.

Boulder Flats is located in Fremont County.

To see how the shape of Wyoming's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Fremont County: Carbon, Hot Springs, Natrona, Park, Sublette, Sweetwater, Teton & Washakie.

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

  • Fremont County     (The home county of Boulder Flats)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Boulder Flats, with the one closest to Boulder Flats listed first.
    • Lander
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Ethete
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Fort Washakie
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Hudson
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Johnstown
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Johnstown have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown
      • Johnstown is located in Fremont County
    • Arapahoe
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Kinnear
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Saint Stephens
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Riverton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Pavillion
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Miners Delight ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miners Delight have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miners Delight
      • Miners Delight is located in Fremont County
    • Atlantic City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • South Pass City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Boulder Flats ...

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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Boulder Flats.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Boulder Flats, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Boulder Flats.

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 Boulder Flats:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

Cemeteries Near Boulder Flats ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Boulder Flats.

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

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

  • North Fork Masonic Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Wyoming State Training School Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Michael's Mission Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Friday Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Mt. Hope Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Shakespeare Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Chief Yellow Calf Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Washakie Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Washakie Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Fort Washakie.
    • The Washakie Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Ft. Washakie Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Washakie Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #641611 <4>
  • Red Man Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Red Man Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Man Cemetery
  • Sage - Redman Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Sacajawea Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Willow Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Wallowing Bull Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wallowing Bull Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wallowing Bull Cemetery
    • White Plume Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Hudson Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hudson Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Hudson.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hudson Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1968403 <4>

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

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

  • Milford ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Milford have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milford
    • Milford is located in Fremont County
  • Lander
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Fort Washakie
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Saint Stephens
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Miners Delight ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miners Delight have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miners Delight
    • Miners Delight is located in Fremont County
  • Atlantic City
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

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

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

The official website for Fremont County: www.fremontcounty.org/

The official website for State of Wyoming: www.wyo.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>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- Boulder Flats) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Boulder Flats. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9127, Longitude: -108.7990       In this case, the coordinates for Boulder Flats have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Boulder Flats, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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