Nearest Communities to Fort Steele,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Fort Steele, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Fort Steele:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 from Fort Steele.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Fort Steele is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Carbon County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Carbon County: Jackson (CO), Moffat (CO), Routt (CO), Albany, Converse, Fremont, Natrona & Sweetwater.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fort Steele.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> 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 Steele (which is Carbon 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 Steele
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Carbon County (where Fort Steele resides)
- County Seat for Carbon: Rawlins
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Carbon County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Carbon County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Carbon County
- Nearest Communities to Fort Steele ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Steele.
- Walcott
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walcott
- Walcott is located in Carbon County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Walcott <4>
- Edson
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east) - Sinclair
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sinclair
- Sinclair is located in Carbon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 389 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sinclair <4>
- Coyote Springs
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coyote Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Springs
- Coyote Springs is located in Carbon County
- Meads
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast) - Dana
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east) - Old McKeal Place
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old McKeal Place have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old McKeal Place
- Old McKeal Place is located in Carbon County
- Overland
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast) - Rawlins
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rawlins
- Rawlins is located in Carbon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,484 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rawlins <4>
- Old Haymaker Place
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Haymaker Place have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Haymaker Place
- Old Haymaker Place is located in Carbon County
- Hanna
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanna
- Hanna is located in Carbon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 757 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hanna <4>
- Elmo
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
- Elmo is located in Carbon County
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- Hadsell
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Saratoga
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saratoga
- Saratoga is located in Carbon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,599 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saratoga <4>
- Sampo ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east) - Seminoe Dam
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Seminoe Dam have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seminoe Dam
- Seminoe Dam is located in Carbon County
- Ivans Grove ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ivans Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivans Grove
- Ivans Grove is located in Carbon County
- Elk Mountain
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Mountain
- Elk Mountain is located in Carbon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 184 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elk Mountain <4>
- Davis
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south) - Carbon ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Milo
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Widdowfield ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Widdowfield have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Widdowfield
- Widdowfield is located in Carbon County
- Como
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east) - McCargar Place
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCargar Place have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCargar Place
- McCargar Place is located in Carbon County
- Days
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Hadsell
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Fort Steele) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Steele. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7784, Longitude: -106.9468 |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Fort Steele, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |