Nearest Communities to Hiawatha,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Hiawatha, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Hiawatha:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to 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 checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Hiawatha.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Hiawatha is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Moffat County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Moffat County: Rio Blanco, Routt, Daggett (UT), Uintah (UT), Carbon (WY) & Sweetwater (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 8 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hiawatha. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Moffat County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Hiawatha (which is Moffat County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Hiawatha
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Moffat County (where Hiawatha resides)
- County Website: www.co.moffat.co.us/
- County Seat for Moffat: Craig
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- Nearest Communities to Hiawatha ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hiawatha.
- Offield Place
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Offield Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Offield Place
- Offield Place is located in Moffat County
- Sparks
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest) - Powder Wash
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Powder Wash have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powder Wash
- Powder Wash is located in Moffat County
- Wilson Place
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wilson Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilson Place
- Wilson Place is located in Moffat County
- Craig Place
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Craig Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig Place
- Craig Place is located in Moffat County
- Greystone
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Sweetwater County
- County Website: www.co.sweet.wy.us/
- County Seat for Sweetwater: Green River (WY)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- Nearest Communities to Hiawatha ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hiawatha.
- Lower Shell Creek Crossing
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Shell Creek Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Shell Creek Crossing
- Lower Shell Creek Crossing is located in Sweetwater County (WY)
- Petes Place
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Petes Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petes Place
- Petes Place is located in Sweetwater County (WY)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hiawatha) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hiawatha. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.9900, Longitude: -108.6184 In this case, the coordinates for Hiawatha have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | 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 Hiawatha, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking. 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 larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know. |
| <4> | 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. |