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 Dwyer (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 Dwyer. 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 doctors and 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.
Dwyer is located in Platte 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 Platte County: Albany, Converse, Goshen, Laramie & Niobrara.
Below are the counties that are near Dwyer. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dwyer:
- Platte County (The home county of Dwyer)
- The following are listed by their distance from Dwyer, with the one closest to Dwyer listed first.
- Wendover ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Wendover is located in Platte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendover
- Guernsey
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Wheatland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Hartville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Chugcreek
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Chugcreek is located in Platte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chugcreek
- Westview Circle
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Westview Circle is located in Platte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westview Circle
- Sunrise ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Sunrise is located in Platte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise
- Y-O Ranch
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Y-O Ranch is located in Platte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Y-O Ranch
- Glendo
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Slater
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Slater is located in Platte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slater
- Albany County
- Binford
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Binford is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Binford
- Converse County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dwyer, with the one closest to Dwyer listed first.
- Esterbrook
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Esterbrook is located in Converse County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esterbrook
- Orin
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Orin is located in Converse County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin
- Goshen County
- Fort Laramie
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dwyer, see our County-by-County Page for Dwyer.
Cemeteries Near Dwyer ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dwyer.
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 Dwyer - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dwyer covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dwyer, with the one closest to Dwyer listed first.
- Dwyer Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Lucindy Rollins Gravesite
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Register Cliff Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Prairie Rest Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Rest Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Prairie Rest Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Guernsey.
- The Prairie Rest Cemetery has also been known as:
- Guernsey City Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1135257 <2>
- Boot Hill Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Emigrant Hill Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Wheatland Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Horseshoe Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horseshoe Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Horseshoe Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the southwest of Glendo.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84047 <2>
- Mary Homsley Gravesite
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Ft. Laramie Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Newell Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newell Cemetery
- The Newell Cemetery has also been known as:
- Esterbrook Cemetery
- Springhill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1997059 <2>
- Red Cloud Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
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 Dwyer in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dwyer.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Dwyer, with the one closest to Dwyer listed first.
- Wheatland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Hartville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Glendo
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Fort Laramie
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Bona
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Bona is located in Converse County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bona
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dwyer. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dwyer.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Dwyer ...
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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dwyer.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Dwyer. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Dwyer and those printed in the larger area surrounding Dwyer.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3> of Dwyer.
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 Dwyer:
- Websites specific to Wyoming
- Pages specific to Platte County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Albany County
- Converse County
- Goshen 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> | 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. |
| <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- Dwyer) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Dwyer, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |