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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 starting from Carbon.<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 Seat for Carbon: Rawlins
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Carbon County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Carbon County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Carbon County
- Nearest Communities to Carbon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Carbon.
- Como
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north) - Sampo ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest) - Elmo
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
- Elmo is located in Carbon County
- Medicine Bow
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medicine Bow
- Medicine Bow is located in Carbon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 257 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Medicine Bow <5>
- Hanna
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanna
- Hanna is located in Carbon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 757 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hanna <5>
- Oil Springs
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oil Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Springs
- Oil Springs is located in Carbon County
- Elk Mountain
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Mountain
- Elk Mountain is located in Carbon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 184 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elk Mountain <5>
- Old Brooks Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Brooks Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Brooks Place
- Old Brooks Place is located in Carbon County
- Milo
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Widdowfield ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Widdowfield have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Widdowfield
- Widdowfield is located in Carbon County
- Dana
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west) - Paradise
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north) - Continue List (12 more) ...
- McFadden ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast) - Ivans Grove ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ivans Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivans Grove
- Ivans Grove is located in Carbon County
- Arlington
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast) - Coyote Springs
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coyote Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Springs
- Coyote Springs is located in Carbon County
- Edson
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west) - Meads
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest) - Shirley ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north) - Walcott
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walcott
- Walcott is located in Carbon County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Walcott <5>
- Woodedge
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - Morrisey ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Overland
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Fort Steele ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Steele
- Fort Steele is located in Carbon County
- McFadden ‑ Historic
- Albany County
- County Website: www.co.albany.wy.us/
- County Seat for Albany: Laramie
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Albany County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Albany County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Albany County
- Nearest Communities to Carbon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Carbon.
- Wilcox
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east) - Rock River
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock River
- Rock River is located in Albany County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 259 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rock River <5>
- Harper
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east) - Rock Creek ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek
- Rock Creek is located in Albany 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 from Point A (ie- Carbon) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Carbon. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8486, Longitude: -106.3770 In this case, the coordinates for Carbon have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |