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Nearest Communities to Elk,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Elk.<1>

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

Elk is located in Teton County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Teton County: Bonneville (ID), Fremont (ID), Teton (ID), Gallatin (MT), Fremont, Lincoln, Park & Sublette.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Elk. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Teton 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 Elk (which is Teton 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 Elk

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

  • Teton County   (where Elk resides)
    • County Website:   www.tetonwyo.org/
    • County Seat for Teton:   Jackson
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elk.
      • Moran
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Colter Bay Village
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colter Bay Village
        • Colter Bay Village is located in Teton County
        • Colter Bay Village has also been known as:
        • Colter Bay
      • Kelly
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Beaver Creek
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beaver Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Creek
        • Beaver Creek is located in Teton County
      • Grovont
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grovont have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grovont
        • Grovont is located in Teton County
      • Moose
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Teton Village
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jackson
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Moose Wilson Road
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moose Wilson Road have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moose Wilson Road
        • Moose Wilson Road is located in Teton County
      • Alta
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Wilson
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Rafter J Ranch
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rafter J Ranch have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rafter J Ranch
        • Rafter J Ranch is located in Teton County
      • South Park
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Park
        • South Park is located in Teton County
  • Teton County
    • County Seat for Teton:   Driggs (ID)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elk   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elk.
      • Darby
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Darby have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darby
        • Darby is located in Teton County (ID)
      • Driggs
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Driggs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Driggs
        • Driggs is located in Teton County (ID)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,836 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Driggs <3>
      • Aline ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Aline. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aline
        • Aline is located in Teton County (ID)
      • Clawson
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clawson have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clawson
        • Clawson is located in Teton County (ID)
      • Chapin
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapin
        • Chapin is located in Teton County (ID)
      • Fox Creek
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Creek
        • Fox Creek is located in Teton County (ID)
      • The String
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The String
        • The String is located in Teton County (ID)
      • Victor
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Victor have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victor
        • Victor is located in Teton County (ID)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,563 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Victor <3>
      • Cache
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cache have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cache
        • Cache is located in Teton County (ID)
      • Tetonia
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tetonia have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tetonia
        • Tetonia is located in Teton County (ID)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 290 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tetonia <3>

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- Elk) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Elk. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.7866, Longitude: -110.5474       In this case, the coordinates for Elk 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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