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Nearest Communities to Opal,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

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

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

Opal 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 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Opal. Of these communities, 12 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 Opal (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 Opal

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

  • Lincoln County   (where Opal resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.lincoln.wy.us/
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   Kemmerer
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Opal   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Opal.
      • Oakley
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakley
        • Oakley is located in Lincoln County
      • Diamondville
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Frontier
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Kemmerer
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Willow Addition
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Addition have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Addition
        • Willow Addition is located in Lincoln County
      • Glencoe Junction
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Glencoe Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glencoe Junction
        • Glencoe Junction is located in Lincoln County
      • Blazon Junction
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blazon Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blazon Junction
        • Blazon Junction is located in Lincoln County
      • Moxa
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moxa have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moxa
        • Moxa is located in Lincoln County
      • Rocky Crossing
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rocky Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Crossing
        • Rocky Crossing is located in Lincoln County
      • Elkol
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkol have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkol
        • Elkol is located in Lincoln County
      • Fontenelle
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Fossil
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fossil have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fossil
        • Fossil is located in Lincoln County
  • Sweetwater County
  • Uinta County
    • County Website:   www.uintacounty.com/
    • County Seat for Uinta:   Evanston
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Opal   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Opal.
      • Hampton
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hampton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton
        • Hampton is located in Uinta County
      • Verne
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Verne have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verne
        • Verne is located in Uinta County
      • Elkhurst
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkhurst have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhurst
        • Elkhurst is located in Uinta County
      • Carter Cedars
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carter Cedars have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter Cedars
        • Carter Cedars is located in Uinta County
      • Carter
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Antelope
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Antelope have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
        • Antelope is located in Uinta County
      • Lyman
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Bridger
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bridger. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridger
        • Bridger is located in Uinta County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Bridger
        • From Opal to Bridger

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Opal) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Opal. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7698, Longitude: -110.3220    
<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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