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Nearest Communities to Lake,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Lake.<1>

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

Lake is located in Teton County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Teton County: Bonneville (ID), Fremont (ID), Teton (ID), Gallatin (MT), Fremont, Lincoln, Park & Sublette.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 13 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lake. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Teton 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 Lake (which is Teton 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 Lake

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

  • Teton County   (where Lake resides)
  • Park County
    • County Website:   https://parkcounty-wy.gov/
    • County Seat for Park:   Cody
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lake   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lake.
      • Canyon Village
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Canyon Village is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Village
      • Canyon Junction
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Canyon Junction is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Junction
      • Pahaska Tepee
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Pahaska Tepee is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pahaska Tepee
      • Fossil Forest
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Fossil Forest is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fossil Forest
      • Yellowstone National Park
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Bannock Ford
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Bannock Ford is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bannock Ford
      • Devils Den
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Devils Den is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Den
      • Tower Junction
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Tower Junction is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tower Junction
      • Buffalo Ford
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Buffalo Ford is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Ford
      • Yanceys
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Yanceys is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yanceys
      • Soda Butte ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Soda Butte is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soda Butte

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Lake) 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.