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 Sodium (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 Sodium. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Sodium is located in Natrona 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 Natrona County: Carbon, Converse, Fremont, Johnson & Washakie.

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

• Natrona County     (The home county of Sodium)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Sodium, with the one closest to Sodium listed first.
  • Powder River
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powder River
    • Powder River is located in Natrona County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Powder River <1>
  • Vista West
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vista West have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista West
    • Vista West is located in Natrona County
  • Homa Hills
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homa Hills
    • Homa Hills is located in Natrona County
  • Bessemer Bend
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bessemer Bend have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bessemer Bend
    • Bessemer Bend is located in Natrona County
  • Hiland
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hiland
    • Hiland is located in Natrona County
  • Antelope Hills
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Antelope Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope Hills
    • Antelope Hills is located in Natrona County
  • Bar Nunn
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bar Nunn
    • Bar Nunn is located in Natrona County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,870 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bar Nunn <1>
  • Mountain View
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain View have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
    • Mountain View is located in Natrona County
  • Red Butte
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Butte
    • Red Butte is located in Natrona County
  • Hartrandt
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartrandt
    • Hartrandt is located in Natrona County
  • Mills
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mills
    • Mills is located in Natrona County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,077 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mills <1>
  • Casper
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casper
    • Casper is located in Natrona County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 58,498 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Casper <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Sodium ...

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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sodium.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sodium, 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 Sodium.

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 Sodium:

• 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 Natrona 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 Natrona County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Wyoming
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Wyoming
  • Cemeteries of Natrona County

Cemeteries Near Sodium ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sodium.

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

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

• Waltman Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Waltman Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the east of Powder River.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Waltman Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2371870 <4>
• Arminto Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Arminto Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2366971 <4>
• Natrona Memorial Gardens
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • The Natrona Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
  • Memorial Gardens
  • Wyoming Memorial Gardens
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Natrona Memorial Gardens
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84092 <4>
• Red Buttes Burial Ground
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Buttes Burial Ground
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2337140 <4>
• Hiland Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hiland Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Hiland.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hiland Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2366811 <4>
• Old Pioneer Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Pioneer Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2296318 <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.<5>

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

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

• Bessemer ‑ Historic
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bessemer have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bessemer
  • Bessemer is located in Natrona County
• Casper
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casper
  • Casper is located in Natrona County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 58,498 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Casper <1>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Natrona County: www.natrona.net/

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