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Nearest Communities to Big Sandy,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Big Sandy.<1>

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


Big Sandy is located in Sublette County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sublette County: Fremont, Lincoln, Sweetwater & Teton.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 8 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Big Sandy.

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 Big Sandy (which is Sublette 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 Big Sandy

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

  • Sublette County   (where Big Sandy resides)
    • County Seat for Sublette:   Pinedale
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Big Sandy   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Big Sandy.
      • Buckskin Crossing
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buckskin Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckskin Crossing
        • Buckskin Crossing is located in Sublette County
      • Temple Creek Summer Home Area
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Temple Creek Summer Home Area have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temple Creek Summer Home Area
        • Temple Creek Summer Home Area is located in Sublette County
      • Leckie
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leckie have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leckie
        • Leckie is located in Sublette County
      • New Fork ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Fork
        • New Fork is located in Sublette County
      • Boulder
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Elkhorn Junction
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkhorn Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Junction
        • Elkhorn Junction is located in Sublette County
      • Pinedale
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area
        • Sylvan Bay Summer Home Area is located in Sublette County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Big Sandy) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Big Sandy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.6312, Longitude: -109.4627    
<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.
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