Nearest Communities to Altus,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Altus, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Altus:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Altus.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Altus is located in Laramie County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Laramie County: Larimer (CO), Weld (CO), Banner (NE), Kimball (NE), Albany, Goshen & Platte.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Altus. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Laramie 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 Altus (which is Laramie 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 Altus
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Laramie County (where Altus resides)
- County Website: www.webgate.co.laramie.wy.us/
- County Seat for Laramie: Cheyenne
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Laramie County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Laramie County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Laramie County
- Nearest Communities to Altus ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Altus.
- Murke
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south) - Farthing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north) - Horse Creek
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horse Creek
- Horse Creek is located in Laramie County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Horse Creek <4>
- Lambert
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast) - Islay
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south) - Hecla ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south) - Silver Crown
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Crown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Crown
- Silver Crown is located in Laramie County
- Granite
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south) - Borie
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast) - Ranchettes
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ranchettes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranchettes
- Ranchettes is located in Laramie County
- Albany County
- County Website: www.co.albany.wy.us/
- County Seat for Albany: Laramie
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Albany County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Albany County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Albany County
- Nearest Communities to Altus ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Altus.
- Hirsig
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Howell
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west) - Wyoming Station ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming Station
- Wyoming Station is located in Albany County
- Wyoming Station has also been known as:
- Wyoming
- Laramie
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laramie
- Laramie is located in Albany County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 32,661 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Laramie <4>
- West Laramie
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for West Laramie have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Laramie
- West Laramie is located in Albany County
- Buford
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buford
- Buford is located in Albany County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Buford <4>
- Bosler Junction
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bosler Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosler Junction
- Bosler Junction is located in Albany County
- Sherman ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south) - Bosler
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosler
- Bosler is located in Albany County
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- The Buttes
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for The Buttes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Buttes
- The Buttes is located in Albany County
- Colores
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Dale Creek
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dale Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dale Creek
- Dale Creek is located in Albany County
- Red Buttes ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Buttes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Buttes
- Red Buttes is located in Albany County
- Hermosa
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest) - Cooper Lake
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cooper Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooper Lake
- Cooper Lake is located in Albany County
- The Buttes
- Platte County
- County Seat for Platte: Wheatland
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Platte County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Platte County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Platte County
- Nearest Communities to Altus ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Altus.
- Diamond
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast) - Brinton
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast) - Chugwater
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chugwater
- Chugwater is located in Platte County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 203 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chugwater <4>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Altus) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Altus. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.4744, Longitude: -105.2194 In this case, the coordinates for Altus have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |