Carbon County, Wyoming Genealogy

United States Wyoming  Carbon County

Guide to Carbon County, Wyoming ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Historical Facts

 * Parent County: created 16 December 1868 as an original county
 * County Seat: Rawlins
 * Neighboring Counties: Albany | Converse | Fremont | Jackson County, Colorado | Moffat County, Colorado | Natrona | Routt County, Colorado | Sweetwater

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Wyoming County boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Wyoming County Boundary Maps" (1848-1965) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Cemeteries
For a list of people buried in the following cemeteries see FHL 978.786 V3m:

Baggs, Baker, Anderson, Encampment, Grand Encampment, Mountain View-Riverside, Wyoming State Penitentiary, Rawlins City, Saratoga, Cadwell, Indian Creek, Baggott, Overland Crossing, Higby, Battle, Graves in County, Kennaday, Reader, Elk Mountain, Hanna, Fort Steele, Medicine Bow-Trails End Cemetery, Carbon, Dixon, Mexican Flats, Birdgulch, McCarger, Anderson Ranch, Saulsbury Ranch (These were recorded in the summer of 1998. At the beginning of each section is directions to find the cemetery and a map of the cemetery.)

Church Records
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * . Record of Members 1924-1936.

Migration
Early migration routes to and from for European and African American settlers included:


 * Platte River
 * Sweetwater River
 * Oregon Trail 1830s to 1890s from western Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon
 * California Trail 1846 to 1869 from western Missouri to northern California
 * Mormon Trail 1846 to 1869 from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah

Newspapers

 * Wyoming Newspaper Project

Courthouse
County Clerk has marriage records from 1876 and land records from 1880. Clerk District Court has divorce, probate and court records.

Family History Centers

 * Baggs Wyoming Family History Center
 * Hanna Wyoming Family History Center
 * Rawlins Wyoming Family History Center
 * Saratoga Wyoming Family History Center

Marriage

 * Western States Marriage Index over 1,432 marriages 21 Nov 1870 to 24 Nov 1909

Websites

 * Carbon County, WY History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
 * Wyoming Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * Wyoming Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * The Carbon County WY GenWeb Project, a member of The WYGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project
 * County Clerk
 * Lookups (GenWeb)
 * Wikipedia