Nearest Communities to Jay Em,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Jay Em, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Jay Em:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Jay Em.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Jay Em is located in Goshen County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Goshen County: Banner (NE), Scotts Bluff (NE), Sioux (NE), Laramie, Niobrara & Platte.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Jay Em. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Goshen 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 Jay Em (which is Goshen 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 Jay Em
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Goshen County (where Jay Em resides)
- County Seat for Goshen: Torrington
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Goshen County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Goshen County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Goshen County
- Nearest Communities to Jay Em ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Jay Em.
- Fort Laramie
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Laramie
- Fort Laramie is located in Goshen County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 229 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Laramie <3>
- Barnes
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south) - Lingle
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lingle
- Lingle is located in Goshen County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 454 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lingle <3>
- Torrington
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torrington
- Torrington is located in Goshen County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,565 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Torrington <3>
- Cottier
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south) - South Torrington
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Torrington have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Torrington
- South Torrington is located in Goshen County
- Niobrara County
- County Seat for Niobrara: Lusk
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Niobrara County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Niobrara County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Niobrara County
- Nearest Communities to Jay Em ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Jay Em.
- Node
(18 miles [29 km] to the north) - Van Tassell
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Tassell
- Van Tassell is located in Niobrara County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Van Tassell <3>
- Lusk
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk
- Lusk is located in Niobrara County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,474 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lusk <3>
- Manville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manville
- Manville is located in Niobrara County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 83 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manville <3>
- Kirtley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirtley
- Kirtley is located in Niobrara County
- Keeline
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keeline
- Keeline is located in Niobrara County
- 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 Jay Em ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Jay Em.
- Meadowdale
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadowdale have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowdale
- Meadowdale is located in Platte County
- Sunrise ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise
- Sunrise is located in Platte County
- Crane
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest) - Hartville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartville
- Hartville is located in Platte County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 60 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hartville <3>
- Guernsey
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guernsey
- Guernsey is located in Platte County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,143 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Guernsey <3>
- Wendover ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west) - Cassa
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Sioux County
- County Website: www.co.sioux.ne.us/
- County Seat for Sioux: Harrison (NE)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nebraska
- Sioux County
- Nearest Communities to Jay Em ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Jay Em.
- Agate
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Harrison
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison
- Harrison is located in Sioux County (NE)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 230 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harrison <3>
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- Jay Em) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Jay Em. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4613, Longitude: -104.3689 |
| <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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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. |