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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 Winchester (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 Winchester. 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 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.

Winchester is located in Washakie 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 Washakie County: Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Johnson, Natrona & Park.

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

  • Washakie County     (The home county of Winchester)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Winchester, with the one closest to Winchester listed first.
    • Neiber ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Neiber. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neiber
      • Neiber is located in Washakie County
    • South Flat
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Flat have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Flat
      • South Flat is located in Washakie County
    • McNutt
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for McNutt. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNutt
      • McNutt is located in Washakie County
    • Airport Road
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Airport Road have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airport Road
      • Airport Road is located in Washakie County
    • Worland
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • West River ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West River
      • West River is located in Washakie County
    • Washakie Ten
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Washakie Ten have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washakie Ten
      • Washakie Ten is located in Washakie County
  • Big Horn County
    • Manderson
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Hot Springs County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Winchester, with the one closest to Winchester listed first.
    • Kirby
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirby
      • Kirby is located in Hot Springs County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 84 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kirby <3>
    • Gebo ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gebo
      • Gebo is located in Hot Springs County
    • Lucerne
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
      • Lucerne is located in Hot Springs County
    • Thermopolis
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • East Thermopolis
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for East Thermopolis have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Thermopolis
      • East Thermopolis is located in Hot Springs County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
    • Owl Creek
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • 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
    • Hamilton Dome
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Winchester ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Winchester.

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

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

  • Winchester Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Crosby Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crosby Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Crosby Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<5> to the northeast of Kirby.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2157042 <4>
  • Gebo Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gebo Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gebo Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<5> to the east of Kirby.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2157048 <4>
  • Milek Family Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Monument Hill Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Smoky Row Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Smoky Row Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Smoky Row Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Thermopolis.
    • The Smoky Row Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Smokey Row Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2157660 <4>
  • Riverview Memorial Gardens
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Manderson Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Winchester ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Winchester.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Winchester, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Winchester.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Winchester:

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Winchester) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Winchester. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8600, Longitude: -108.1607       In this case, the coordinates for Winchester have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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