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Nearest Communities to Paradise,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Paradise.<1>

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


Paradise 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 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Paradise.

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 Paradise (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 Paradise

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

  • Carbon County   (where Paradise resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.carboncountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Carbon:   Rawlins
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Paradise   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Paradise.
      • Shirley ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Shirley was located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
      • Oil Springs
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Oil Springs is also located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Springs
      • Como
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Como is also located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Como
      • Sampo ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Sampo was located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sampo
      • Elmo
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Elmo is also located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
      • Hanna
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Hanna is also located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanna
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 757 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hanna <3>
      • Carbon ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Carbon was located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbon
      • Medicine Bow
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Shirley Basin ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Shirley Basin was located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley Basin
      • Leo
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Leo is also located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leo
      • Dana
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Dana is also located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana
      • Seminoe Dam
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Seminoe Dam is also located in Carbon County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seminoe Dam
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Edson
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Edson is also located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edson
        • Coyote Springs
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Coyote Springs is also located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Springs
        • Elk Mountain
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Old Brooks Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Old Brooks Place is also located in Carbon County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Brooks Place
        • Walcott
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)

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- Paradise) 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.