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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 Thayne (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 Thayne. 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 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.

Thayne is located in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County: Bear Lake (ID), Bonneville (ID), Caribou (ID), Rich (UT), Sublette, Sweetwater, Teton & Uinta.

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

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Thayne)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Thayne, with the one closest to Thayne listed first.
    • Bedford
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Star Valley Ranch
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star Valley Ranch
      • Star Valley Ranch is located in Lincoln County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,700 people
    • Freedom
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Turnerville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Turnerville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnerville
      • Turnerville is located in Lincoln County
    • Etna
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Auburn
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Grover
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Afton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Afton
      • Afton is located in Lincoln County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,071 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Afton <1>
    • Fairview
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Alpine
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Alpine Northeast
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine Northeast
      • Alpine Northeast is located in Lincoln County
    • Alpine Northwest
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine Northwest
      • Alpine Northwest is located in Lincoln County
    • Smoot
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Teton County
  • Bonneville County (ID)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Thayne, with the one closest to Thayne listed first.
    • Caribou City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Caribou City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caribou City
      • Caribou City is located in Bonneville County (ID)
    • Keenan City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Keenan City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keenan City
      • Keenan City is located in Bonneville County (ID)
  • Caribou County (ID)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Thayne, with the one closest to Thayne listed first.
    • Freedom
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom
      • Freedom is located in Caribou County (ID)
    • Wayan
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Conda
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Conda have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conda
      • Conda is located in Caribou County (ID)

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

Newspapers Published in Thayne ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Thayne.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Thayne, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Thayne.

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 websites either 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 Thayne:

Cemeteries Near Thayne ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Thayne.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Thayne, with the one closest to Thayne 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.<5>

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

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

  • Freedom
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Freedom
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom
    • Freedom is located in Caribou County (ID)
  • Afton
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Afton
    • Afton is located in Lincoln County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,071 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Afton <1>

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

The official website for Thayne: www.thayne-wy.com/

The official website for Lincoln County: www.co.lincoln.wy.us/

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>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Thayne) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Thayne. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9189, Longitude: -111.0024    
<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>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 Thayne, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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