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A visit to the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery ...

Introduction ...

Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery (FG ID #2174640).

Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.

We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.

Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.

The Location of the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery ...

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery:

41.7953, -107.2408

The Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery is located in Rawlins.

The cemetery is located in Carbon County<2>.

The county seat for Carbon County is located in Rawlins. Rawlins lies just to the south southeast of the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery .

Open a Google Map centered on the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery.

List of nearby cemeteries ...

Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of only one cemetery that is within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3> of the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery:<4>

For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.

List of neighboring communities ...

The following 7 communities are within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery, with the nearest first:

For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.

Nearby communities with newspapers ...

The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery. The following communities are located in Carbon County.

More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities alphabetically.

  • Rawlins
    • Rawlins lies less than 2 miles<3> to the South Southeast (SSE) of the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Rawlins.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rawlins

Websites to help with your research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery:

  • Pages specific to Wyoming:
  • Pages specific to Carbon County:
  • Cemetery Information and Directories:
  • Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...

    Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.

    We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery:

    Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry:  #2174640

    Footnotes ...

    <1>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.
    <2>If you're interested in how the shape of Wyoming's counties, including Carbon, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
    <3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
    <4>While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), be assured that it's not complete and we're still searching for cemeteries to add.
    <5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.