Nearest Communities to Carbon,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Carbon, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Carbon:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Carbon is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Carbon County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Carbon County: Jackson (CO), Moffat (CO), Routt (CO), Albany, Converse, Fremont, Natrona & Sweetwater.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Carbon. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Carbon County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Carbon (which is Carbon 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 Carbon
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Carbon County (where Carbon resides)
- County Website: https://www.carboncountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Carbon: Rawlins
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Carbon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Carbon.
- Como
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Como is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Como
- Sampo ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sampo is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sampo
- Elmo
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Elmo is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
- Medicine Bow
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Hanna
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Oil Springs
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Oil Springs is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Springs
- Elk Mountain
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Old Brooks Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Old Brooks Place is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Brooks Place
- Milo
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Milo is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
- Widdowfield ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Widdowfield is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Widdowfield
- Dana
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Dana is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana
- Paradise
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Paradise is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
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- McFadden ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- McFadden is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McFadden
- Ivans Grove ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Ivans Grove is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivans Grove
- Arlington
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Arlington is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington
- Coyote Springs
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Coyote Springs is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Springs
- Edson
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Edson is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edson
- Meads
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Meads is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meads
- Shirley ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Shirley is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
- Walcott
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Woodedge
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Woodedge is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodedge
- Morrisey ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Morrisey is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrisey
- Overland
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Overland is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overland
- Fort Steele ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Fort Steele is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Steele
- Albany County
- County Website: https://www.albanycountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Albany: Laramie
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Carbon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Carbon.
- Wilcox
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Wilcox is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilcox
- Rock River
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Harper
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Harper is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harper
- Rock Creek ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Rock Creek is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek
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- Carbon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Carbon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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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