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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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.<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 Website:   https://www.plattecountywyoming.com/
    • 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)
        • Sunrise is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise
      • Crane
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Crane is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crane
      • Cassa
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Cassa is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cassa
      • Glendo
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Wendover ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Wendover is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendover
      • Guernsey
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Dwyer
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Dwyer is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwyer
      • Dwyer Junction
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Dwyer Junction is located in Platte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwyer Junction
  • Converse County
    • County Website:   https://www.conversecountywy.gov/
    • 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)
        • Deadmans Corner is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadmans Corner
      • Shawnee
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Bona
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Bona is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bona
      • Ammon
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Ammon is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ammon
      • McKinley
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • McKinley is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKinley
      • XH Crossing
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • XH Crossing is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for XH Crossing
      • Orin Junction
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Orin Junction is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin Junction
      • Orin
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Orin is located in Converse County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orin
  • Goshen County
  • Niobrara County
    • County Website:   https://niobraracounty.org/
    • 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)
        • Keeline is located in Niobrara County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keeline
      • Manville
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Lusk
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Lusk is located in Niobrara County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk
        • 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)
        • Node is located in Niobrara County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Node

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Meadowdale) 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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