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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 Winton Junction (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 Winton Junction. 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 Winton Junction ...

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 Winton Junction: Winton Jct. (or less commonly used: Winton Jctn.)

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 hospitals and doctors 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.

Winton Junction is located in Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater County: Moffat (CO), Daggett (UT), Summit (UT), Carbon, Fremont, Lincoln, Sublette & Uinta.

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

  • Sweetwater County     (The home county of Winton Junction)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Winton Junction, with the one closest to Winton Junction listed first.
    • Reliance
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • North Rock Springs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Rock Springs
      • North Rock Springs is located in Sweetwater County
    • Rock Springs
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Clearview Acres
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearview Acres
      • Clearview Acres is located in Sweetwater County
    • Purple Sage
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purple Sage
      • Purple Sage is located in Sweetwater County
    • Quealy
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quealy
      • Quealy is located in Sweetwater County
    • Superior
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Arrowhead Springs
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrowhead Springs
      • Arrowhead Springs is located in Sweetwater County
    • Green River
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • James Town
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James Town
      • James Town is located in Sweetwater County
    • Sweeney Ranch
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sweeney Ranch have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweeney Ranch
      • Sweeney Ranch is located in Sweetwater County
    • Point of Rocks
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Bryan ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bryan. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryan
      • Bryan is located in Sweetwater County

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

Cemeteries Near Winton Junction ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Winton Junction.

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

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

  • Rest Haven Memorial Gardens
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Rock Springs Municipal Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Riverview Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverview Cemetery
    • The Riverview Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Green River Cemetery
    • Riverview Memorial Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #84112 <4>
  • Eden Valley Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

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 Winton Junction in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Winton Junction.

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

  • Rock Springs
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Baxter
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baxter have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxter
    • Baxter is located in Sweetwater County
  • Salt Wells
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salt Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Wells
    • Salt Wells is located in Sweetwater County
  • Green River
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Peru
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peru have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
    • Peru is located in Sweetwater County
  • Point of Rocks
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Bryan ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bryan. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryan
    • Bryan is located in Sweetwater County
  • Hallville
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hallville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hallville
    • Hallville is located in Sweetwater County

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

Newspapers Published in Winton Junction ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Winton Junction.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Winton Junction, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Winton Junction.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Winton Junction:

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

The official website for Sweetwater County: www.co.sweet.wy.us/

The official website for State of Wyoming: https://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>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.
<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 Winton Junction, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Winton Junction) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Winton Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7127, Longitude: -109.2387       In this case, the coordinates for Winton Junction have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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