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Nearest Communities to Canyon Junction,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Canyon Junction.<1>

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

Canyon Junction is located in Park County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Park County: Carbon (MT), Gallatin (MT), Park (MT), Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Teton & Washakie.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Canyon Junction. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Park 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 Canyon Junction (which is Park 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 Canyon Junction

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

  • Park County   (where Canyon Junction resides)
    • County Website:   https://parkcounty-wy.gov/
    • County Seat for Park:   Cody
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Canyon Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Canyon Junction.
      • Canyon Village
        (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
        • Canyon Village is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Village
      • Devils Den
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Devils Den is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Den
      • Tower Junction
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Tower Junction is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tower Junction
      • Bannock Ford
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Bannock Ford is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bannock Ford
      • Yanceys
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Yanceys is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yanceys
      • Buffalo Ford
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Buffalo Ford is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Ford
      • Fossil Forest
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Fossil Forest is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fossil Forest
      • Soda Butte ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Soda Butte is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soda Butte
      • Mammoth
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Mammoth is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mammoth
      • Yellowstone National Park
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Pahaska Tepee
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Pahaska Tepee is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pahaska Tepee
  • Teton County
  • Gallatin County
  • Park County
    • County Website:   https://www.parkcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Park:   Livingston (MT)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Canyon Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Canyon Junction.
      • Gardiner
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Jardine
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Jardine is located in Park County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jardine
      • Electric
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Electric is located in Park County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Electric
      • Aldridge
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Aldridge is located in Park County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aldridge
      • Corwin Springs
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Corwin Springs is located in Park County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corwin Springs
      • Silver Gate
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

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- Canyon Junction) 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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