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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 Westview Circle (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 Westview Circle. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Westview Circle is located in Platte 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 Platte County: Albany, Converse, Goshen, Laramie & Niobrara.

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

  • Platte County     (The home county of Westview Circle)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Westview Circle, with the one closest to Westview Circle listed first.
    • Wheatland
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Y-O Ranch
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Y-O Ranch have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Y-O Ranch
      • Y-O Ranch is located in Platte County
    • Chugcreek
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chugcreek
      • Chugcreek is located in Platte County
    • Slater
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Slater have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slater
      • Slater is located in Platte County
    • Wendover ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wendover have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendover
      • Wendover is located in Platte County
    • Guernsey
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Chugwater
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Hartville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Sunrise ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise
      • Sunrise is located in Platte County
    • Glendo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Albany County
    • Binford
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Binford
      • Binford is located in Albany County
  • Converse County
    • Esterbrook
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esterbrook
      • Esterbrook is located in Converse County
  • Goshen County
    • Fort Laramie
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Westview Circle ...

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 17 newspapers that have been published in the area around Westview Circle.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Westview Circle, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Westview Circle.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Westview Circle:

Cemeteries Near Westview Circle ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Westview Circle.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Westview Circle, with the one closest to Westview Circle 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 Westview Circle in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Westview Circle.

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

  • Wheatland
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Chugwater
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Hartville
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Fort Laramie
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Westview Circle. 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>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 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Westview Circle) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Westview Circle. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.0641, Longitude: -105.0647       In this case, the coordinates for Westview Circle 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>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 Westview Circle, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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