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Nearest Communities to Oakley,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Oakley.<1>

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


Oakley is located in Lincoln County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Bear Lake (ID), Bonneville (ID), Caribou (ID), Rich (UT), Sublette, Sweetwater, Teton & Uinta.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oakley. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Lincoln 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 Oakley (which is Lincoln 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 Oakley

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

  • Lincoln County   (where Oakley resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.lincolncountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   Kemmerer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oakley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oakley.
      • Diamondville
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Kemmerer
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Glencoe Junction
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Glencoe Junction is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glencoe Junction
      • Willow Addition
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Willow Addition is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Addition
      • Frontier
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Blazon Junction
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Blazon Junction is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blazon Junction
      • Elkol
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Elkol is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkol
      • Opal
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Opal is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Opal <3>
      • Fossil
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Fossil is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fossil
      • Rocky Crossing
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Rocky Crossing is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Crossing
      • Sage
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Sage is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage
      • Carlson
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Carlson is located in Lincoln County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlson
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Moxa
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Moxa is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moxa
        • Beckwith
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Beckwith is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beckwith
        • Leefe
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Leefe is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leefe
        • Pixley
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Pixley is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pixley
        • Fontenelle
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Fontenelle is located in Lincoln County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fontenelle
  • Sweetwater County
  • Uinta County
    • County Website:   https://www.uintacountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Uinta:   Evanston
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oakley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oakley.
      • Carter Cedars
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Carter Cedars is located in Uinta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter Cedars
      • Hampton
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Hampton is located in Uinta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton
      • Elkhurst
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Elkhurst is located in Uinta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst
      • Antelope
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Antelope is located in Uinta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
      • Carter
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Carter is located in Uinta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter
      • Bridger
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Bridger is located in Uinta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridger
      • Verne
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Verne is located in Uinta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verne
      • Fort Bridger
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Rich County

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 from Point A (ie- Oakley) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.