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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 Old McKeal Place (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 Old McKeal Place. 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 Old McKeal Place ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Old McKeal Place: Old McKeal Pl. (or less commonly used: Old McKeal Plc.)

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

Old McKeal Place is located in 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 Old McKeal Place. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Old McKeal Place:

  • Carbon County     (The home county of Old McKeal Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Old McKeal Place, with the one closest to Old McKeal Place listed first.
    • Saratoga
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Fort Steele ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Steele
      • Fort Steele is located in Carbon County
    • Walcott
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Sinclair
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Rawlins
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Encampment
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Grand Encampment
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand Encampment came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Encampment
      • Grand Encampment is located in Carbon County
    • Riverside
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Elk Mountain
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Hanna
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Elmo
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
      • Elmo is located in Carbon County

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

Newspapers Published in Old McKeal Place ...

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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Old McKeal Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Old McKeal Place, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Old McKeal Place.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Old McKeal Place:

Cemeteries Near Old McKeal Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Old McKeal Place.

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 Old McKeal Place covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Overland Crossing Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Saratoga Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Cadwell Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Rawlins Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • The Rawlins Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Rawlins City Cemetery
    • Rawlins Municipal Cemetery
    • St. Joseph Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rawlins Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84105 <4>
  • Wyoming State Penitentiary Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Ft. Halleck Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Hanna Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Encampment Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> 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 <4>
  • Elk Mtn. Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Battle Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Battle Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Battle Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83991 <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>

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

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

  • Saratoga
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Walcott
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Fort Steele ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Steele
    • Fort Steele is located in Carbon County
  • Rawlins
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Dana
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dana have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana
    • Dana is located in Carbon County
  • Elk Mountain
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Hanna
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Old McKeal Place. 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>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Old McKeal Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Old McKeal Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5886, Longitude: -106.9595       In this case, the coordinates for Old McKeal Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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.
<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 Old McKeal Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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