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Nearest Communities to Meadowdale,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 north.

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 north 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 starting from Meadowdale.<1>

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

Meadowdale is located in Platte County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Platte County: Albany, Converse, Goshen, Laramie & Niobrara.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Meadowdale. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Platte 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 Meadowdale (which is Platte 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 Meadowdale

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

  • Platte County   (where Meadowdale resides)
    • County Seat for Platte:   Wheatland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Meadowdale   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Meadowdale.
      • Hartville
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Sunrise ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise
        • Sunrise is located in Platte County
      • Crane
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crane have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crane
        • Crane is located in Platte County
      • Cassa
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cassa have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cassa
        • Cassa is located in Platte County
      • Glendo
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Wendover ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Wendover. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendover
        • Wendover is located in Platte County
      • Guernsey
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Dwyer
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dwyer have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwyer
        • Dwyer is located in Platte County
      • Dwyer Junction
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dwyer Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwyer Junction
        • Dwyer Junction is located in Platte County
  • Converse County
    • County Website:   www.conversecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Converse:   Douglas
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Meadowdale   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Meadowdale.
      • Lost Springs
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Deadmans Corner
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deadmans Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadmans Corner
        • Deadmans Corner is located in Converse County
      • Shawnee
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Bona
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bona have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bona
        • Bona is located in Converse County
      • Ammon
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ammon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ammon
        • Ammon is located in Converse County
      • McKinley
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McKinley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKinley
        • McKinley is located in Converse County
      • XH Crossing
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for XH Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for XH Crossing
        • XH Crossing is located in Converse County
      • Orin Junction
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Orin Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin Junction
        • Orin Junction is located in Converse County
      • Orin
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Orin. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin
        • Orin is located in Converse County
  • Goshen County
    • County Seat for Goshen:   Torrington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Meadowdale   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Meadowdale.
      • Jay Em
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jay Em
        • Jay Em is located in Goshen County
      • Fort Laramie
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Barnes
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Barnes have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnes
        • Barnes is located in Goshen County
  • Niobrara County
    • County Seat for Niobrara:   Lusk
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Meadowdale   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Meadowdale.
      • Keeline
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keeline
        • Keeline is located in Niobrara County
      • Manville
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Lusk
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • 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>
      • Node
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Node have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Node
        • Node is located in Niobrara County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Meadowdale) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Meadowdale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.5525, Longitude: -104.6955       In this case, the coordinates for Meadowdale have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.
<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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