Nearest Communities to Bessemer Bend,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Bessemer Bend, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Bessemer Bend:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Bessemer Bend is located in Natrona County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Natrona County: Carbon, Converse, Fremont, Johnson & Washakie.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bessemer Bend. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Natrona 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 Bessemer Bend (which is Natrona 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 Bessemer Bend
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Natrona County (where Bessemer Bend resides)
- County Website: https://www.natronacounty-wy.gov/
- County Seat for Natrona: Casper
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bessemer Bend ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bessemer Bend.
- Goose Egg
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Goose Egg is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goose Egg
- Bessemer ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Bessemer is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bessemer
- Winter Crossing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Winter Crossing is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winter Crossing
- Red Butte
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Red Butte is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Butte
- Paradise Valley
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Paradise Valley is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Valley
- Eadsville ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Eadsville is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eadsville
- Vista West
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Vista West is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista West
- Casper Mountain
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Casper Mountain is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casper Mountain
- Air Base Acres
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Air Base Acres is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Air Base Acres
- Mills
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Mountain View
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Mountain View is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
- Midwest Heights
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Midwest Heights is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midwest Heights
- Continue List (26 more) ...
- Allendale
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Allendale is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allendale
- Casper
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Thorndale Acres
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Thorndale Acres is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorndale Acres
- Crimson Dawn
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Crimson Dawn is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crimson Dawn
- Hartrandt
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Hartrandt is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartrandt
- Richardson Acres
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Richardson Acres is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardson Acres
- Bishop
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Bishop is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop
- Cadoma
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Cadoma is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadoma
- Bar Nunn
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Evansville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Strouds
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Strouds is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strouds
- Brookhurst
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Illco
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Illco is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Illco
- Homa Hills
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Homa Hills is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homa Hills
- Alcova
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Bucknum
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Bucknum is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucknum
- Pearson
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Pearson is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearson
- Cow Hollow
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Cow Hollow is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cow Hollow
- Fry
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Fry is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fry
- Petrie
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Petrie is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petrie
- Meadow Acres
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Meadow Acres is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Acres
- Natrona
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Natrona is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Natrona
- Antelope Hills
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Antelope Hills is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope Hills
- Sodium
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Sodium is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sodium
- Beck Place
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Beck Place is located in Natrona County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beck Place
- Powder River
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Converse County
- County Website: https://www.conversecountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Converse: Douglas
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bessemer Bend ...
- Parkerton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Parkerton is located in Converse County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkerton
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bessemer Bend) 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. |
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