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Nearest Communities to Granite Canon,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 Granite Canon.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Granite Canon is located in Laramie County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Laramie County: Larimer (CO), Weld (CO), Banner (NE), Kimball (NE), Albany, Goshen & Platte.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 50 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Granite Canon. Of these communities, 30 are located in counties other than Laramie 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 Granite Canon (which is Laramie 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 Granite Canon

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

  • Laramie County   (where Granite Canon resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.laramiecountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Laramie:   Cheyenne
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Granite Canon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Granite Canon.
      • Granite
        (Less than 2 miles to the east)
        • Granite is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
      • Hecla ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Hecla is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hecla
      • Borie
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Borie is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borie
      • Silver Crown
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Silver Crown is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Crown
      • Harriman
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Harriman is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harriman
      • Speer
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Islay
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Gleason
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Gleason is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gleason
      • Orchard Valley
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Orchard Valley is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard Valley
      • Athol
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Athol is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athol
      • Cheyenne
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • South Greeley
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • South Greeley is located in Laramie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Greeley
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Ranchettes
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Ranchettes is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranchettes
        • Horse Creek
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Murke
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Murke is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murke
        • Altvan
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Altvan is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altvan
        • Archer
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Archer is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Archer
        • Altus
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Altus is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altus
        • Durham
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Durham is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durham
        • Farthing
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Farthing is located in Laramie County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farthing
  • Albany County
  • Larimer County
    • County Website:   https://www.larimer.gov/
    • County Seat for Larimer:   Fort Collins (CO)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Granite Canon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Granite Canon.
      • Virginia Dale
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Norfolk
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Norfolk is located in Larimer County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norfolk
      • Buckeye
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Buckeye is located in Larimer County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
      • Livermore
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Rex
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Rex is located in Larimer County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rex
      • Owl Canyon
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Owl Canyon is located in Larimer County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owl Canyon
      • Bulger
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Bulger is located in Larimer County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulger
      • Waverly
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Dixon
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Dixon is located in Larimer County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixon
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Wellington
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Poudre Park
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Poudre Park is located in Larimer County (CO)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poudre Park
        • Boettcher
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Boettcher is located in Larimer County (CO)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boettcher
        • Meyers Corner
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Meyers Corner is located in Larimer County (CO)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meyers Corner
        • Mishawaka
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Mishawaka is located in Larimer County (CO)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mishawaka
        • Red Feather Lakes
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Weld 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 from Point A (ie- Granite Canon) 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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