Our Genealogy Helper
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 Crimson Dawn (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 Crimson Dawn. 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.
Crimson Dawn is located in Natrona County.
To see how the shape of Wyoming's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Natrona County: Carbon, Converse, Fremont, Johnson & Washakie.
Below are the counties that are near Crimson Dawn. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Crimson Dawn:
- Natrona County (The home county of Crimson Dawn)
- The following are listed by their distance from Crimson Dawn, with the one closest to Crimson Dawn listed first.
- Casper Mountain
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Casper Mountain is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casper Mountain
- Allendale
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Allendale is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allendale
- Brookhurst
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Casper
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Evansville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Strouds
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Strouds is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strouds
- Mills
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Mountain View
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Mountain View is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
- Red Butte
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Red Butte is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Butte
- Hartrandt
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Hartrandt is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartrandt
- Meadow Acres
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Meadow Acres is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Acres
- Vista West
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Vista West is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista West
- Bessemer Bend
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Bessemer Bend is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bessemer Bend
- Carbon County
- Shirley Basin ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Shirley Basin is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley Basin
- Converse County
- The following are listed by their distance from Crimson Dawn, with the one closest to Crimson Dawn listed first.
- Boxelder
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Boxelder is located in Converse County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boxelder
- Glenrock
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Rolling Hills
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Rolling Hills is located in Converse County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Hills
- Population from the 2020 Census: 420 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Crimson Dawn, see our County-by-County Page for Crimson Dawn.
Cemeteries Near Crimson Dawn ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crimson Dawn.
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.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Crimson Dawn - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Crimson Dawn covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Crimson Dawn, with the one closest to Crimson Dawn listed first.
- Crimson Dawn Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Eadsville Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Highland Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Highland Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Casper.
- The Highland Cemetery has also been known as:
- Casper Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84045 <3>
- Freeland Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Old Pioneer Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Evansville Gravesite
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Red Buttes Burial Ground
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Natrona Memorial Gardens
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Grant Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Glenrock Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Old Alcova Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- H A Unthank Grave
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for H A Unthank Grave
- To give a relative sense of its location, the H A Unthank Grave is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the southeast of Glenrock.
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.<4>
While we didn't find Crimson Dawn in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Crimson Dawn.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Crimson Dawn, with the one closest to Crimson Dawn listed first.
- Casper
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Strouds
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Strouds is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strouds
- Bessemer ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Bessemer is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bessemer
- Boxelder
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Boxelder is located in Converse County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boxelder
- Glenrock
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Crimson Dawn. See our List of 1890's Communities around Crimson Dawn.
Newspapers Published in Crimson Dawn ...
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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Crimson Dawn.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Crimson Dawn, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Crimson Dawn.
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 Crimson Dawn:
- Websites specific to Wyoming
- Pages specific to Natrona County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Carbon County
- Converse County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wyoming
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> | 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- Crimson Dawn) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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. |
| <4> | 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 Crimson Dawn, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |