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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 Wycross (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 Wycross. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Wycross is located in Goshen County.

To see how the shape of Wyoming's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Goshen County: Banner (NE), Scotts Bluff (NE), Sioux (NE), Laramie, Niobrara & Platte.

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

  • Goshen County     (The home county of Wycross)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wycross, with the one closest to Wycross listed first.
    • La Grange
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Hawk Springs
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Huntley
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Yoder
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Veteran
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Torrington
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Laramie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wycross, with the one closest to Wycross listed first.
    • Meriden
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Albin
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Banner County (NE)
  • Furnas County (NE)
    • Henry
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Henry is located in Furnas County (NE)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 104 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Henry <1>
  • Scotts Bluff County (NE)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wycross, with the one closest to Wycross listed first.
    • Lyman
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Lyman is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyman
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 321 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lyman <1>
    • Stegall
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Stegall is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stegall
    • Morrill
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Morrill is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 873 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Morrill <1>
    • Haig
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Haig is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haig
    • Mitchell
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Mitchell is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,608 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mitchell <1>
    • Scoville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Scoville is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scoville
    • Gering
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Gering is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gering
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,061 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gering <1>
    • Terrytown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Terrytown is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terrytown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,163 people
    • Scottsbluff
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Scottsbluff is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scottsbluff
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 14,373 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Scottsbluff <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Wycross ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wycross.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Wycross - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Wycross covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wycross, with the one closest to Wycross 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.<4>

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

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

  • La Grange
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Meriden
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Caldwell ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Caldwell is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caldwell
  • Harrisburg
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Torrington
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Gering
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Gering is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gering
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,061 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gering <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Wycross ...

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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wycross.

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

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 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 Wycross:

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 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.
<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- Wycross) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Wycross, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.