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Nearest Communities to Trapper,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Trapper, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Trapper:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Trapper.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Trapper is located in Routt County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Routt County: Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco & Carbon (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Trapper. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Routt County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Trapper (which is Routt 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 Trapper

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Routt County   (where Trapper resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.routt.co.us/
    • County Seat for Routt:   Steamboat Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Trapper   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Trapper.
      • Yampa
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Toponas
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Egeria
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Egeria is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egeria
      • Phippsburg
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Oak Creek
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Keystone
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Keystone is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
      • Haybro
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Haybro is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haybro
      • Sidney
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Sidney is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
      • Dunckley
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Dunckley is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunckley
      • Steamboat Springs
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • McGregor
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • McGregor is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGregor
      • Milner
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Milner is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milner
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Steamboat II
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Steamboat II is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steamboat II
        • Bear River ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Bear River is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear River
        • Mount Harris
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Mount Harris is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Harris
        • Trull ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Trull is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trull
  • Eagle County
    • County Website:   https://www.eaglecounty.us/
    • County Seat for Eagle:   Eagle
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Trapper   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Trapper.
      • Burns
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Dell
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Dell is located in Eagle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dell
      • McCoy
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Derby Junction
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Derby Junction is located in Eagle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derby Junction
      • Copper Spur
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Copper Spur is located in Eagle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper Spur
      • Bond
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Orestod
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Orestod is located in Eagle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orestod
      • State Bridge
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • State Bridge is located in Eagle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Bridge
      • Yarmony
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Yarmony is located in Eagle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yarmony
      • Sheephorn
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Sheephorn is located in Eagle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheephorn
      • Wolcott
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Grand County
  • Summit County

Footnotes ...

<1>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Trapper) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.