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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 Fontenelle (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 Fontenelle. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Fontenelle is located in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County: Bear Lake (ID), Bonneville (ID), Caribou (ID), Rich (UT), Sublette, Sweetwater, Teton & Uinta.

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

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Fontenelle)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fontenelle, with the one closest to Fontenelle listed first.
    • La Barge
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Opal
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal
      • Opal is located in Lincoln County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Opal <1>
    • Frontier
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Kemmerer
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Diamondville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Oakley
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakley
      • Oakley is located in Lincoln County
  • Sublette County
    • Calpet
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Calpet have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calpet
      • Calpet is located in Sublette County
  • Sweetwater County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fontenelle, with the one closest to Fontenelle listed first.
    • Granger
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Westvaco ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Westvaco have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westvaco
      • Westvaco is located in Sweetwater County

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

Newspapers Published in Fontenelle ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fontenelle.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fontenelle, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fontenelle.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Fontenelle:

Cemeteries Near Fontenelle ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fontenelle.

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

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

  • Whitman Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Whitman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Whitman Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84129 <4>
  • Holden Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Viola - LaBarge Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Viola - LaBarge Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> to the east of La Barge.
    • The Viola - LaBarge Cemetery has also been known as:
    • LaBarge Cemetery
    • Viola Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Viola - LaBarge Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2262719 <4>
  • Granger Municipal Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • South Lincoln Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • South Lincoln Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Hams Fork Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

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

  • La Barge
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Granger
    (27 miles [43.5 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 Fontenelle. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fontenelle.

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

The official website for Lincoln County: www.co.lincoln.wy.us/

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- Fontenelle) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fontenelle. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9855, Longitude: -110.0614    
<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 Fontenelle, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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