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Nearest Communities to Douglas,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast 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 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 east 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 starting from Douglas.<1>

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

Douglas is located in Converse County and is the County Seat.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Converse County: Albany, Campbell, Carbon, Johnson, Natrona, Niobrara, Platte & Weston.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Douglas. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Converse 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 Douglas (which is Converse 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 Douglas

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

  • Converse County   (where Douglas resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.conversecountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Converse:   Douglas
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Douglas   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Douglas.
      • Morton
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Morton is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morton
      • Foster
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Foster is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster
      • Irvine
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Irvine is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irvine
      • Orpha
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Orpha is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orpha
      • Orin Junction
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Orin Junction is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin Junction
      • Orin
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • XH Crossing
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • XH Crossing is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for XH Crossing
      • Alberta
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Alberta is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alberta
      • Ammon
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Ammon is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ammon
      • McKinley
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • McKinley is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKinley
      • Dead Man Crossing
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Dead Man Crossing is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dead Man Crossing
      • Carey
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Carey is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carey
      • Continue List   (14 more) ...
        • Careyhurst
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
          • Careyhurst is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Careyhurst
        • Bona
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Bona is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bona
        • Shawnee
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Deadmans Corner
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
          • Deadmans Corner is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadmans Corner
        • Clayton
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Clayton is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayton
        • Lost Springs
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Esterbrook
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Rolling Hills
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Rolling Hills is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Hills
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 420 people
        • Whipple Hollow
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Whipple Hollow is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whipple Hollow
        • Glenrock
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Boxelder
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Birkner Hill
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Birkner Hill is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birkner Hill
        • Buck Place
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Buck Place is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Place
        • Parkerton
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Parkerton is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkerton
  • Albany County
  • Platte County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Douglas) 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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