Crook County Wyoming Genealogy and History A Proud Member of the Genealogy Trails Group Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing historical and genealogical data for our websites. Your data contributions, feedback and comments are welcome. If you have data that you would like to have posted on this website, please contact us. We regret that we do not have time to perform any personal research. All data we come across is placed on these websites. This Site is Available for Adoption! Interested in Helping Us? We need volunteers who are dedicated to putting data online and who are interested in helping these websites be the best they can be for researchers. If you want to host an available county site, please see the Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage are required.] If you'd like to help transcribe data, join our Transcription Team Crook County was organized 8 December 1875 from Laramie and Albany Counties. County seat: Sundance Largest city Sundance It was named for Brigadier General George Crook, a commander during the Indian Wars. Buffalo on the range in Crook County, Wyoming Original Photo Author: USDA Photo: Ron Nicols Formatted here by K. Torp Populated Areas Aladdin * Alva * Beulah * Carlile * Carlile Junction * Colony (aka Benton Spur/Bentonite/Bentonite Spur) * * Devils Tower * Farrall * Hay Creek (historical) * Hulett * Lightning Flat (historical) * Linden * Mona * Moorcroft (aka Moorcraft) * Moskee (aka Laviere, Moche) * New Haven * Oshoto * Pine Haven * Sand Creek Crossing * Seely * Stroner * Sundance * Vista West Trailer Park * Willow Springs Lightning Flat: The community apparently existed from at least 1922 through 1926 when a newspaper, The Lightening Flat Flash was published. Hay Creek: - Townsite laid out in 1888 (source: GNIS) Our Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Apr 2013: Bios for WOOD, YOUNG, THORN Previous Updates: Obits for RIPLEY, GOES, MCMAHON, STOUT, ATKINSON, MCHENRY, SCHNEIDER, WAYNE; Crime news for PROFFIT, REINECKE, GROVE, WILKINSON, RICH murder; bio for DAVIS; Fire news for house of MORSE and a hotel in Sundance; Community news items; birth records; 1890 Veterans Census for BEULAH, FORKS and RIVERDALE Devils tower monument; early town history; bios for MILLER, IVES, CRESWELL; Burials in Beulah and Hulett Cemeteries; World War 2 Casualties Surrounding Counties * Campbell County, Wyoming - west * Weston County, Wyoming - south * Lawrence County, South Dakota - east * Butte County, South Dakota - east * Carter County, Montana - north * Powder River County, Montana - northwest SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Western States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Western States of : Colorado -- Idaho -- Montana -- Utah -- Wyoming Visit our Wyoming State Site Visit our National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.