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Nearest Communities to Davis,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

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.


Davis is located in 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 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Davis. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Carbon 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 Davis (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 Davis

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

  • Carbon County   (where Davis resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.carboncountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Carbon:   Rawlins
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Davis   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Davis.
      • Days
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Days is located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Days
      • Saratoga
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Tenmile
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Tenmile is located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile
      • Riverside
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Old Haymaker Place
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Old Haymaker Place is located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Haymaker Place
      • Encampment
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Grand Encampment
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Grand Encampment is located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Encampment
      • Ryan Park
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Ryan Park is located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan Park
      • Elwood ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Elwood is located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwood
      • Overland
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Overland is located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overland
      • Old McKeal Place
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Old McKeal Place is located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old McKeal Place
      • Ivans Grove ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Ivans Grove is located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivans Grove
      • Continue List   (17 more) ...
        • Battle ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Battle is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battle
        • Rambler ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Rambler is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rambler
        • Meads
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
          • Meads is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meads
        • Rudefeha ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Rudefeha is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudefeha
        • Dillon ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
          • Dillon is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dillon
        • Milo
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Milo is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
        • Widdowfield ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Widdowfield is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Widdowfield
        • Copperton ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Copperton is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copperton
        • Walcott
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Jays Roost
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Jays Roost is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jays Roost
        • Dexterville ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Dexterville is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dexterville
        • Coyote Springs
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Coyote Springs is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Springs
        • Elk Mountain
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Fort Steele ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Fort Steele is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Steele
        • Edson
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Edson is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edson
        • Old Brooks Place
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Old Brooks Place is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Brooks Place
        • Tullis
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Tullis is located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tullis
  • Albany County
  • Jackson County

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 from Point A (ie- Davis) 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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