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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 Cowley (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 Cowley. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Cowley is located in Big Horn 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 Big Horn County: Big Horn (MT), Carbon (MT), Johnson, Park, Sheridan & Washakie.

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

  • Big Horn County     (The home county of Cowley)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cowley, with the one closest to Cowley listed first.
    • Lovell
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Byron
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Deaver
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Frannie
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Kane ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kane have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kane
      • Kane is located in Big Horn County
    • Emblem
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Burlington
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Park County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cowley, with the one closest to Cowley listed first.
    • Garland
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
      • Garland is located in Park County
    • Powell
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Ralston
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Cowley ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cowley.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Cowley. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Cowley and those printed in the larger area surrounding Cowley.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Cowley.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Cowley:

Cemeteries Near Cowley ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cowley.

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

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

  • Cowley Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Mexican Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Byron Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Deaver Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Lovell Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Lovell Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Lutheran Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Sand Draw Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Sand Draw Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sand Draw Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2173246 <4>
  • Garland Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Penrose Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Iona - Kane Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Crown Hill Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Crown Hill Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the west of Powell.
    • The Crown Hill Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Powell Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crown Hill Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84012 <4>
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Bowler Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bowler Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bowler Cemetery
    • Annherer Spring Grave
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Annherer Spring Grave have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Annherer Spring Grave
    • Deadman Creek Grave
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Deadman Creek Grave have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Deadman Creek Grave

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.<6>

While we didn't find Cowley in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cowley.

  • Lovell
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)

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

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

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cowley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cowley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.8835, Longitude: -108.4694    
<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>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.
<6>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 Cowley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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