RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Wyoming >> Fremont County >> Boysen >> Nearby CommunitiesIndex...

Nearest Communities to Boysen,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 from Boysen.<1>

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

Boysen is located in Fremont County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Fremont County: Carbon, Hot Springs, Natrona, Park, Sublette, Sweetwater, Teton & Washakie.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Boysen. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Fremont 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 Boysen (which is Fremont 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 Boysen

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

  • Fremont County   (where Boysen resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.fremontcountywy.org/
    • County Seat for Fremont:   Lander
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Boysen   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Boysen.
      • Siddons
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Siddons is located in Fremont County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siddons
      • Bonneville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Bonneville is located in Fremont County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonneville
      • Shoshoni
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Midvale
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Midvale is located in Fremont County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midvale
      • Delfelder
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Delfelder is located in Fremont County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delfelder
      • Lysite
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Lost Cabin
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Lost Cabin is located in Fremont County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Cabin
      • Moneta
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Moneta is located in Fremont County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moneta
      • Pavillion
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Snyder Place
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Snyder Place is located in Fremont County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snyder Place
      • Riverton
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Hot Springs County
    • County Website:   https://www.hscounty.com/
    • County Seat for Hot Springs:   Thermopolis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Boysen   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Boysen.
      • Dornick
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Dornick is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dornick
      • Nickelson Place
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Nickelson Place is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nickelson Place
      • Minnesela
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Minnesela is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnesela
      • East Thermopolis
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • East Thermopolis is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Thermopolis
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
      • Thermopolis
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Red Lane
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Red Lane is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lane
      • Lucerne
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Lucerne is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
      • Gebo ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Gebo is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gebo
      • Kirby
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Kirby is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirby
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 84 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kirby <3>
      • Hamilton Dome
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Owl Creek
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Owl Creek is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owl Creek
  • Washakie 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Boysen) 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.