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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about McFadden. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added McFadden to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with McFadden, please Contact Us.


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 McFadden (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 McFadden. 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 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of McFadden is historic, it would have been located within present day Carbon 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 Carbon County: Jackson (CO), Moffat (CO), Routt (CO), Albany, Converse, Fremont, Natrona & Sweetwater.

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

  • Carbon County     (The home county of McFadden)
    • The following are listed by their distance from McFadden, with the one closest to McFadden listed first.
    • Elk Mountain
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Medicine Bow
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Elmo
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
      • Elmo is located in Carbon County
    • Hanna
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Albany County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McFadden, with the one closest to McFadden listed first.
    • Rock River
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Lookout ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lookout have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout
      • Lookout is located in Albany County
    • Rock Creek ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek
      • Rock Creek is located in Albany County
    • Bosler
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosler
      • Bosler is located in Albany County
    • Centennial
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Wyoming Station ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming Station
      • Wyoming Station is located in Albany County
      • Wyoming Station has also been known as:
      • Wyoming

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

Newspapers Published in McFadden ...

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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around McFadden.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of McFadden, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for McFadden.

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 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 McFadden:

Cemeteries Near McFadden ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of McFadden.

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

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

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

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

  • Wilcox
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wilcox have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilcox
    • Wilcox is located in Albany County
  • Harper
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harper have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harper
    • Harper is located in Albany County
  • Elk Mountain
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Lookout ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lookout have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout
    • Lookout is located in Albany County
  • Medicine Bow
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Cooper Lake
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cooper Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooper Lake
    • Cooper Lake is located in Albany County
  • Rock Creek ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek
    • Rock Creek is located in Albany County
  • Carbon ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carbon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbon
    • Carbon is located in Carbon County
  • Como
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Como have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Como
    • Como is located in Carbon County
  • Centennial
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Hatton
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hatton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatton
    • Hatton is located in Albany County
  • Hanna
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Wyoming Station ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming Station
    • Wyoming Station is located in Albany County
    • Wyoming Station has also been known as:
    • Wyoming

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 McFadden, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- McFadden) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in McFadden. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.6544, Longitude: -106.1306       In this case, the coordinates for McFadden 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.









 

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