Nearest Communities to Creston Junction,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Creston Junction, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Creston Junction:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.
Keep in mind 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.
Creston Junction is located in Sweetwater County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sweetwater County: Moffat (CO), Daggett (UT), Summit (UT), Carbon, Fremont, Lincoln, Sublette & Uinta.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 11 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Creston Junction. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Sweetwater 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 Creston Junction (which is Sweetwater 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 Creston Junction
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Sweetwater County (where Creston Junction resides)
- County Website: www.co.sweet.wy.us/
- County Seat for Sweetwater: Green River
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- Nearest Communities to Creston Junction ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Creston Junction.
- Creston
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest) - Cherokee
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east) - Latham
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest) - Riner
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east) - Wamsutter
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wamsutter
- Wamsutter is located in Sweetwater County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 467 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wamsutter <4>
- Frewen ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west) - Red Desert
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Desert have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Desert
- Red Desert is located in Sweetwater County
- Tipton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Carbon County
- 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 Creston Junction ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Creston Junction.
- Hadsell
(18 miles [29 km] to the east) - Rawlins
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rawlins
- Rawlins is located in Carbon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,484 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rawlins <4>
- Dad
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
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- Creston Junction) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Creston Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7269, Longitude: -107.7273 In this case, the coordinates for Creston Junction have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |