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Nearest Communities to Fontenelle,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Fontenelle.<1>

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

Fontenelle is located in Lincoln County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Bear Lake (ID), Bonneville (ID), Caribou (ID), Rich (UT), Sublette, Sweetwater, Teton & Uinta.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fontenelle. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Lincoln 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 Fontenelle (which is Lincoln 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 Fontenelle

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

  • Lincoln County   (where Fontenelle resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.lincoln.wy.us/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   Kemmerer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fontenelle   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fontenelle.
      • La Barge
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Opal
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal
        • Opal is located in Lincoln County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Opal <3>
      • Moxa
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moxa have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moxa
        • Moxa is located in Lincoln County
      • Viola
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Viola have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viola
        • Viola is located in Lincoln County
      • Rocky Crossing
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rocky Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Crossing
        • Rocky Crossing is located in Lincoln County
      • Frontier
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Kemmerer
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Willow Addition
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Addition have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Addition
        • Willow Addition is located in Lincoln County
      • Diamondville
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Oakley
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakley
        • Oakley is located in Lincoln County
  • Sublette County
  • Sweetwater County
    • County Website:   www.co.sweet.wy.us/
    • County Seat for Sweetwater:   Green River
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fontenelle   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fontenelle.
      • Granger
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Westvaco ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Westvaco have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westvaco
        • Westvaco is located in Sweetwater County
  • Uinta County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fontenelle) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fontenelle. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9855, Longitude: -110.0614    
<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.




 

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