Nearest Communities to Oil Springs,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Oil Springs, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Oil Springs:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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 from Oil Springs.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Oil Springs is located in Carbon County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Carbon County: Jackson (CO), Moffat (CO), Routt (CO), Albany, Converse, Fremont, Natrona & Sweetwater.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oil Springs. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Carbon 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 Oil Springs (which is Carbon 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 Oil Springs
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Carbon County (where Oil Springs resides)
- County Website: https://www.carboncountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Carbon: Rawlins
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Oil Springs ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oil Springs.
- Medicine Bow
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Como
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Como is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Como
- Paradise
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Paradise is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
- Carbon ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Carbon is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbon
- Sampo ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Sampo is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sampo
- Elmo
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Elmo is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
- Shirley ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Shirley is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
- Hanna
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Shirley Basin ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Shirley Basin is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley Basin
- Old Brooks Place
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Old Brooks Place is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Brooks Place
- Elk Mountain
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- McFadden ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- McFadden is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McFadden
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- Dana
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Dana is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana
- Milo
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Milo is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
- Widdowfield ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Widdowfield is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Widdowfield
- Arlington
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Arlington is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington
- Coyote Springs
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Coyote Springs is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Springs
- Edson
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Edson is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edson
- Ivans Grove ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Ivans Grove is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivans Grove
- Albany County
- County Website: https://www.albanycountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Albany: Laramie
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Oil Springs ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Oil Springs.
- Wilcox
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Wilcox is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilcox
- Rock River
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Rock Creek ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Rock Creek is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek
- Harper
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Harper is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harper
- Little Medicine
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Little Medicine is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Medicine
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Oil Springs) 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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