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 Lucerne (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 Lucerne. 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 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.

Lucerne is located in Hot Springs 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 Hot Springs County: Fremont, Park & Washakie.

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

• Hot Springs County     (The home county of Lucerne)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Lucerne, with the one closest to Lucerne listed first.
  • Kirby
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirby
    • Kirby is located in Hot Springs County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 84 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kirby <1>
  • Gebo ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gebo
    • Gebo is located in Hot Springs County
  • East Thermopolis
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for East Thermopolis have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Thermopolis
    • East Thermopolis is located in Hot Springs County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
  • Thermopolis
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thermopolis
    • Thermopolis is located in Hot Springs County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,770 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Thermopolis <1>
  • Owl Creek
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Owl Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owl Creek
    • Owl Creek is located in Hot Springs County
  • Hamilton Dome
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton Dome
    • Hamilton Dome is located in Hot Springs County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hamilton Dome <1>
• Washakie County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Lucerne, with the one closest to Lucerne listed first.
  • Winchester
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winchester have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester
    • Winchester is located in Washakie County
  • Neiber ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Neiber. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neiber
    • Neiber is located in Washakie County
  • South Flat
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Flat have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Flat
    • South Flat is located in Washakie County
  • McNutt
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for McNutt. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNutt
    • McNutt is located in Washakie County
  • Airport Road
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Airport Road have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airport Road
    • Airport Road is located in Washakie County
  • Worland
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worland
    • Worland is located in Washakie County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,994 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Worland <1>
  • West River ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West River
    • West River is located in Washakie County
  • Washakie Ten
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Washakie Ten have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washakie Ten
    • Washakie Ten is located in Washakie County

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

Newspapers Published in Lucerne ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lucerne.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lucerne, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lucerne.

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 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 Lucerne:

• Websites specific to Wyoming
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Wyoming State Archives

• Pages specific to Hot Springs County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Washakie County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Wyoming
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Wyoming
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Wyoming
  • Cemeteries of Hot Springs County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Wyoming
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Wyoming

Cemeteries Near Lucerne ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lucerne.

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

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

• Crosby Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Crosby Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<4> to the northeast of Kirby.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crosby Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2157042 <5>
• Milek Family Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Milek Family Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<4> to the southwest of Thermopolis.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Milek Family Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2157658 <5>
• Monument Hill Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Monument Hill Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84080 <5>
• Smoky Row Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Smoky Row Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Thermopolis.
  • The Smoky Row Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Smokey Row Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Smoky Row Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2157660 <5>
• Gebo Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gebo Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the east of Kirby.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gebo Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2157048 <5>
• Riverside Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84111 <5>
• Winchester Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Winchester Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2509239 <5>
• Riverview Memorial Gardens
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • The Riverview Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
  • Worland Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverview Memorial Gardens
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84113 <5>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Hot Springs County: www.hscounty.com/

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