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Nearest Communities to Fort Laramie,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northwest 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 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.

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.

Fort Laramie is located in Goshen County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Goshen County: Banner (NE), Scotts Bluff (NE), Sioux (NE), Laramie, Niobrara & Platte.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 41 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fort Laramie. Of these communities, 24 are located in counties other than Goshen 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 Fort Laramie (which is Goshen 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 Fort Laramie

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

  • Goshen County   (where Fort Laramie resides)
  • Platte County
    • County Website:   https://www.plattecountywyoming.com/
    • County Seat for Platte:   Wheatland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fort Laramie   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Laramie.
      • Crane
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Crane is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crane
      • Sunrise ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Guernsey
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Hartville
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Wendover ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Uva
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Uva is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uva
      • Dwyer
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Dwyer is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwyer
      • Chugcreek
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Sibylee
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Sibylee is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sibylee
      • Curtis
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Curtis is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curtis
      • Dwyer Junction
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Dwyer Junction is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwyer Junction
      • Meadowdale
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Meadowdale is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowdale
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Bordeaux
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Bordeaux is located in Platte County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bordeaux
        • Wheatland
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Y-O Ranch
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Y-O Ranch is located in Platte County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Y-O Ranch
        • Cassa
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Cassa is located in Platte County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cassa
        • Gibson
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Gibson is located in Platte County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
        • Whiting
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Whiting is located in Platte County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiting
        • Slater
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Slater is located in Platte County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slater
        • Ayers
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Ayers is located in Platte County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ayers
        • Ferguson Corner
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Ferguson Corner is located in Platte County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferguson Corner
        • Hightower
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Hightower is located in Platte County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hightower
        • Westview Circle
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Westview Circle is located in Platte County
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  • Furnas 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Fort Laramie) 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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