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 Meeteetse (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 Meeteetse. 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.

Meeteetse 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 Meeteetse. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Meeteetse:

• Park County     (The home county of Meeteetse)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Meeteetse, with the one closest to Meeteetse listed first.
  • Cody
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cody
    • Cody is located in Park County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,847 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cody <1>
  • Kirwin ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirwin
    • Kirwin is located in Park County
• Big Horn County
  • Burlington
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burlington
    • Burlington is located in Big Horn County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 343 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Burlington <1>
• Hot Springs County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Meeteetse, with the one closest to Meeteetse listed first.
  • Hamilton Dome
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • 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>
  • Owl Creek
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • 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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Meeteetse ...

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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Meeteetse.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

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

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 Meeteetse:

• 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 Park County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Big Horn County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Hot Springs 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 Park County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Wyoming
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Wyoming
  • Cemeteries of Park County

Cemeteries Near Meeteetse ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Meeteetse.

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

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

• Meeteetse Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Meeteetse Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Meeteetse.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Meeteetse Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1980223 <4>
• Pitchfork Ranch Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pitchfork Ranch Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2315922 <4>
• Fred Nower Gravesite
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fred Nower Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2410694 <4>
• Elmena Torgerson Gravesite
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elmena Torgerson Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2415052 <4>
• Bull Creek Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bull Creek Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2173660 <4>
• Riverside Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • The Riverside Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Cody Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84110 <4>
• Old Trail Town Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • 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>
• Trail Creek Ranch Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trail Creek Ranch Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2532349 <4>

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 Meeteetse had a population of 56 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Meeteetse had a population of 325 people.

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Meeteetse. 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/