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Nearest Communities to James Town,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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.

James Town is located in Sweetwater County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sweetwater County: Moffat (CO), Daggett (UT), Summit (UT), Carbon, Fremont, Lincoln, Sublette & Uinta.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of James Town. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Sweetwater 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 James Town (which is Sweetwater 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 James Town

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

  • Sweetwater County   (where James Town resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.sweet.wy.us/
    • County Seat for Sweetwater:   Green River
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to James Town   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from James Town.
      • Riovista
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Riovista have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riovista
        • Riovista is located in Sweetwater County
      • Riview
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Riview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riview
        • Riview is located in Sweetwater County
      • Green River
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Peru
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peru have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
        • Peru is located in Sweetwater County
      • Kanda
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kanda have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanda
        • Kanda is located in Sweetwater County
      • Bryan ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bryan. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryan
        • Bryan is located in Sweetwater County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Bryan
        • From James Town to Bryan
      • Purple Sage
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Clearview Acres
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Blairtown
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blairtown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blairtown
        • Blairtown is located in Sweetwater County
      • North Rock Springs
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Quealy
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Westvaco ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Westvaco. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westvaco
        • Westvaco is located in Sweetwater County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Westvaco
        • From James Town to Westvaco
      • Continue List   (16 more) ...
        • Rock Springs
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Winton Junction
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winton Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winton Junction
          • Winton Junction is located in Sweetwater County
        • Little America
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Arrowhead Springs
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Reliance
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Stansbury ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stansbury have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stansbury
          • Stansbury is located in Sweetwater County
        • Granger Junction
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Granger Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granger Junction
          • Granger Junction is located in Sweetwater County
        • Baxter
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baxter have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxter
          • Baxter is located in Sweetwater County
        • Dines ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dines have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dines
          • Dines is located in Sweetwater County
        • Buckboard Crossing
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buckboard Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckboard Crossing
          • Buckboard Crossing is located in Sweetwater County
        • Winton ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winton
          • Winton is located in Sweetwater County
        • Granger
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • South Baxter
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Baxter have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Baxter
          • South Baxter is located in Sweetwater County
        • Sweeney Ranch
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sweeney Ranch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweeney Ranch
          • Sweeney Ranch is located in Sweetwater County
        • Squaw Hollow ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Squaw Hollow have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squaw Hollow
          • Squaw Hollow is located in Sweetwater County
        • Salt Wells
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salt Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Wells
          • Salt Wells is located in Sweetwater County
  • Lincoln County
  • Uinta County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- James Town) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in James Town. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5548, Longitude: -109.5143    
<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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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