Nearest Communities to Garrett,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Garrett, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Garrett:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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 starting from Garrett.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Garrett is located in Albany County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Albany County: Jackson (CO), Larimer (CO), Carbon, Converse, Laramie & Platte.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 12 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Garrett. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Albany 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 Garrett (which is Albany 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 Garrett
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Albany County (where Garrett resides)
- County Website: www.co.albany.wy.us/
- County Seat for Albany: Laramie
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Albany County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Albany County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Albany County
- Nearest Communities to Garrett ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Garrett.
- Reed Place
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reed Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reed Place
- Reed Place is located in Albany County
- Toltec
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toltec
- Toltec is located in Albany County
- Squaw Place
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Squaw Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squaw Place
- Squaw Place is located in Albany County
- Binford
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Binford
- Binford is located in Albany County
- Rock Creek ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek
- Rock Creek is located in Albany County
- Point of Rocks
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Point of Rocks have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point of Rocks
- Point of Rocks is located in Albany County
- Little Medicine
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Medicine have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Medicine
- Little Medicine is located in Albany County
- Wilcox
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Converse County
- County Website: www.conversecounty.org/
- County Seat for Converse: Douglas
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Converse County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Converse County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Converse County
- Nearest Communities to Garrett ...
- Esterbrook
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esterbrook
- Esterbrook is located in Converse County
- Esterbrook
- Platte County
- County Seat for Platte: Wheatland
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Platte County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Platte County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Platte County
- Nearest Communities to Garrett ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Garrett.
- Westview Circle
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Westview Circle have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westview Circle
- Westview Circle is located in Platte County
- Hightower
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Natwick
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
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- Garrett) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Garrett. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.1133, Longitude: -105.6100 In this case, the coordinates for Garrett have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |