Nearest Communities to Fossil,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Fossil, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Fossil:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Fossil 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 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fossil. Of these communities, 14 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 Fossil (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 Fossil
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lincoln County (where Fossil resides)
- County Website: https://www.lincolncountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Lincoln: Kemmerer
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fossil ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fossil.
- Elkol
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Elkol is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkol
- Diamondville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Frontier
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Kemmerer
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Willow Addition
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Willow Addition is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Addition
- Glencoe Junction
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Glencoe Junction is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glencoe Junction
- Oakley
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Oakley is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakley
- Blazon Junction
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Blazon Junction is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blazon Junction
- Sage
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Sage is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage
- Carlson
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Carlson is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlson
- Beckwith
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Beckwith is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beckwith
- Leefe
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Leefe is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leefe
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- Pixley
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Pixley is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pixley
- Opal
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Opal is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal
- Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Opal <3>
- Cokeville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Taylor
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Taylor is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
- Marse
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Marse is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marse
- Border
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Border is also located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border
- Uinta County
- County Website: https://www.uintacountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Uinta: Evanston
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fossil ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fossil.
- Carter Cedars
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Carter Cedars is located in Uinta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter Cedars
- Hampton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Hampton is located in Uinta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton
- Antelope
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Antelope is located in Uinta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
- Elkhurst
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Elkhurst is located in Uinta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst
- Bridger
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Bridger is located in Uinta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridger
- Carter
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Carter is located in Uinta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter
- Bear Lake County
- County Website: https://www.bearlakecounty.info/
- County Seat for Bear Lake: Paris (ID)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fossil ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fossil.
- Border
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Border is located in Bear Lake County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border
- Pegram
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Pegram is located in Bear Lake County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pegram
- Rich County
- County Website: https://www.richcounty.gov/
- County Seat for Rich: Randolph (UT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Fossil ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fossil.
- Sage Creek Junction ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Sage Creek Junction was located in Rich County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage Creek Junction
- Sage Creek ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Sage Creek was located in Rich County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage Creek
- Randolph
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Argyle ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Argyle was located in Rich County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
- Woodruff
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Laketown
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
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- Fossil) 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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