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Nearest Communities to McKinley,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 from McKinley.<1>

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

McKinley is located in Converse County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Converse County: Albany, Campbell, Carbon, Johnson, Natrona, Niobrara, Platte & Weston.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of McKinley. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Converse 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 McKinley (which is Converse 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 McKinley

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

  • Converse County   (where McKinley resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.conversecountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Converse:   Douglas
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McKinley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McKinley.
      • Ammon
        (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
        • Ammon is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ammon
      • Orin Junction
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Orin Junction is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin Junction
      • Bona
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Bona is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bona
      • Deadmans Corner
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • Deadmans Corner is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadmans Corner
      • Orin
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Orin is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin
      • XH Crossing
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • XH Crossing is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for XH Crossing
      • Irvine
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Irvine is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irvine
      • Foster
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Foster is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster
      • Shawnee
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Lost Springs
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Douglas
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Morton
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Morton is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morton
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Esterbrook
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Esterbrook is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esterbrook
        • Orpha
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Orpha is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orpha
        • Dead Man Crossing
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Dead Man Crossing is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dead Man Crossing
        • Alberta
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Alberta is located in Converse County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alberta
  • Albany County
  • Niobrara County
  • Platte County
    • County Website:   https://www.plattecountywyoming.com/
    • County Seat for Platte:   Wheatland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McKinley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McKinley.
      • Glendo
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Cassa
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Cassa is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cassa
      • Meadowdale
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Meadowdale is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowdale
      • Wendover ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Wendover is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendover
      • Dwyer Junction
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Dwyer Junction is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwyer Junction
      • Dwyer
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Dwyer is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwyer
      • Hartville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Crane
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Crane is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crane
      • Sunrise ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Sunrise is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise

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- McKinley) 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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