Nearest Communities to Fossil Forest,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Fossil Forest, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Fossil Forest:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Fossil Forest.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Fossil Forest is located in Park County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Park County: Carbon (MT), Gallatin (MT), Park (MT), Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Teton & Washakie.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fossil Forest. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Park 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 Fossil Forest (which is Park 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 Fossil Forest
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Park County (where Fossil Forest resides)
- County Website: https://parkcounty-wy.gov/
- County Seat for Park: Cody
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fossil Forest ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fossil Forest.
- Soda Butte ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Soda Butte is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soda Butte
- Bannock Ford
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Bannock Ford is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bannock Ford
- Devils Den
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Devils Den is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Den
- Buffalo Ford
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Buffalo Ford is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Ford
- Tower Junction
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Tower Junction is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tower Junction
- Yanceys
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Yanceys is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yanceys
- Canyon Junction
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Canyon Junction is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Junction
- Canyon Village
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Canyon Village is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Village
- Mammoth
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Mammoth is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mammoth
- Pahaska Tepee
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Pahaska Tepee is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pahaska Tepee
- Teton County
- County Website: https://tetoncountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Teton: Jackson
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fossil Forest ...
- Lake
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Lake is located in Teton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake
- Park County
- County Website: https://www.parkcounty.org/
- County Seat for Park: Livingston (MT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fossil Forest ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fossil Forest.
- Silver Gate
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Cooke City - Silver Gate
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Cooke City
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Ricci Trailer Terraces
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Independence ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Independence is located in Park County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independence
- Jardine
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Jardine is located in Park County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jardine
- Gardiner
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Lazy Day ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Lazy Day is located in Park County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lazy Day
- Electric
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Electric is located in Park County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Electric
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fossil Forest) 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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