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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 Keeline (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 Keeline. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Keeline is located in Niobrara 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 Niobrara County: Sioux (NE), Custer (SD), Fall River (SD), Converse, Goshen, Platte & Weston.

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

  • Niobrara County     (The home county of Keeline)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Keeline, with the one closest to Keeline listed first.
    • Manville
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Lusk
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk
      • Lusk is located in Niobrara County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,474 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lusk <1>
    • Lance Creek
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • West Lance Creek ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for West Lance Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lance Creek
      • West Lance Creek is located in Niobrara County
  • Converse County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Keeline, with the one closest to Keeline listed first.
    • Lost Springs
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Shawnee
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Orin
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Orin have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin
      • Orin is located in Converse County
  • Goshen County
    • Jay Em
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jay Em
      • Jay Em is located in Goshen County
  • Platte County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Keeline, with the one closest to Keeline listed first.
    • Glendo
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Hartville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Sunrise ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise
      • Sunrise is located in Platte County
    • Wendover ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wendover have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendover
      • Wendover is located in Platte County

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Keeline ...

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 Keeline.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Keeline. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Keeline and those printed in the larger area surrounding Keeline.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3> of Keeline.

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 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 Keeline:

Cemeteries Near Keeline ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Keeline.

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

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

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Keeline had railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Manville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Lost Springs
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Shawnee
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Lusk
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk
    • Lusk is located in Niobrara County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,474 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lusk <1>
  • Bona
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bona have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bona
    • Bona is located in Converse County
  • Orin Junction
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Orin Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin Junction
    • Orin Junction is located in Converse County
  • Glendo
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Irvine
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Irvine have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irvine
    • Irvine is located in Converse County
  • Hartville
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Keeline. See our List of 1890's Communities around Keeline.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Keeline. 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Keeline) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Keeline. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.7575, Longitude: -104.7567    
<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 Keeline, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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