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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 Kamms Corner (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 Kamms Corner. 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.

Name Variations for Kamms Corner ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

  • A typical abbreviation for Kamms Corner: Kamms Cor. (or less commonly used: Kamms Crn.)
  • While the name of this community is Kamms Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Kamms Corner may originally have been Kamm's Corner.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Kamms Corner might be written as Kamm Corner.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 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.

Kamms Corner is located in Park 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 Park County: Carbon (MT), Gallatin (MT), Park (MT), Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Teton & Washakie.

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

  • Park County     (The home county of Kamms Corner)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kamms Corner, with the one closest to Kamms Corner listed first.
    • Ralston
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Powell
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Garland
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
      • Garland is located in Park County
    • Cody
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Clark
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Wapiti
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Big Horn County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kamms Corner, with the one closest to Kamms Corner listed first.
    • Deaver
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Byron
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Frannie
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Cowley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Lovell
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Emblem
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Carbon County (MT)

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

Newspapers Published in Kamms Corner ...

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 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kamms Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kamms Corner, 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 Kamms Corner.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy 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 information is open to everyone.

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

Cemeteries Near Kamms Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kamms Corner.

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

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

  • Crown Hill Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • 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>
  • Garland Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Trail Creek Ranch Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Old Trail Town Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Old Trail Town Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Trail Town Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #641606 <4>
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Bennett Buttes Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Penrose Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Deaver Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Byron Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Chance Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chance Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chance Cemetery
  • Tolman Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tolman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tolman Cemetery
  • Mexican Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...

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.<7>

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

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

  • Clark
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Lovell
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)

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

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

The official website for Park County: www.parkcounty.us/

The official website for State of Wyoming: www.wyo.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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- Kamms Corner) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kamms Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.7255, Longitude: -108.9326       In this case, the coordinates for Kamms Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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.
<7>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 Kamms Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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