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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 Keystone (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 Keystone. 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 Keystone ...

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.

Keystone has also been known as: Douglas Creek.

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

Keystone is located in Albany 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 Albany County: Jackson (CO), Larimer (CO), Carbon, Converse, Laramie & Platte.

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

  • Albany County     (The home county of Keystone)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
    • Albany
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany
      • Albany is located in Albany County
    • Foxpark
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Foxpark have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxpark
      • Foxpark is located in Albany County
    • Centennial
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Woods Landing
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Woods Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Landing
      • Woods Landing is located in Albany County
    • Jelm
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jelm have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jelm
      • Jelm is located in Albany County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jelm <2>
    • Harmony
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harmony have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
      • Harmony is located in Albany County
  • Carbon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
    • Encampment
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Grand Encampment
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand Encampment came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Encampment
      • Grand Encampment is located in Carbon County
    • Riverside
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Jackson County (CO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
    • Kings Canyon
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Canyon
      • Kings Canyon is located in Jackson County (CO)
    • Northgate
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Northgate have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northgate
      • Northgate is located in Jackson County (CO)
    • Pearl ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearl
      • Pearl is located in Jackson County (CO)
    • Cowdrey
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Brownlee ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownlee
      • Brownlee is located in Jackson County (CO)
    • Walden
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walden
      • Walden is located in Jackson County (CO)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 609 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Walden <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Keystone ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Keystone.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Keystone, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Keystone.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Keystone:

Cemeteries Near Keystone ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Keystone.

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

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

  • Robert Wiliamson Grave
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Robert Wiliamson Grave have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Robert Wiliamson Grave
  • Platt Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Platt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Platt Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84100 <5>
  • Tathem Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tathem Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tathem Cemetery
  • Forrester Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Roy Sweetland Grave
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Roy Sweetland Grave have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Roy Sweetland Grave
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<4> to the southwest of Encampment.
    • The Mountain View Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Dunkard Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2157714 <5>
  • Glendevey Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Encampment Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Jackson County Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

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.<6>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Keystone had a population of 75 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Centennial
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Hatton
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hatton have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatton
    • Hatton is located in Albany County

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

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

The official website for Albany County: www.co.albany.wy.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<4>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- Keystone) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Keystone. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1688, Longitude: -106.2633       In this case, the coordinates for Keystone have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.
<6>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 Keystone, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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