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Nearest Communities to Durham,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Durham is located in Laramie County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Laramie County: Larimer (CO), Weld (CO), Banner (NE), Kimball (NE), Albany, Goshen & Platte.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Durham. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Laramie 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 Durham (which is Laramie 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 Durham

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

  • Laramie County   (where Durham resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.laramiecountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Laramie:   Cheyenne
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Durham   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Durham.
      • Archer
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Archer is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Archer
      • Hillsdale
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Altvan
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Altvan is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altvan
      • Arcola
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Arcola is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcola
      • Ranchettes
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Ranchettes is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranchettes
      • Burns
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Cheyenne
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Orchard Valley
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Orchard Valley is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard Valley
      • South Greeley
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • South Greeley is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Greeley
      • Carpenter
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Egbert
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Egbert is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egbert
      • Athol
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Athol is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athol
      • Continue List   (13 more) ...
        • Speer
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
          • Speer is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speer
        • Gleason
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Gleason is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gleason
        • Borie
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Borie is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borie
        • Tracy
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Tracy is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tracy
        • Silver Crown
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
          • Silver Crown is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Crown
        • Lindbergh
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Lindbergh is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindbergh
        • Pine Bluffs
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Meriden
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Albin
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Islay
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Islay is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Islay
        • Granite Canon
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Granite Canon is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite Canon
        • Granite
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Granite is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
        • Hecla ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Hecla is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hecla
  • Larimer County
  • Weld 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- Durham) 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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