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Nearest Communities to Powder River,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 Powder River.<1>

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

Powder River is located in Natrona County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Natrona County: Carbon, Converse, Fremont, Johnson & Washakie.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Powder River. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Natrona 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 Powder River (which is Natrona 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 Powder River

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

  • Natrona County   (where Powder River resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.natronacounty-wy.gov/
    • County Seat for Natrona:   Casper
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Powder River   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Powder River.
      • Sodium
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Sodium is located in Natrona County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sodium
      • Natrona
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Waltman
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Waltman is located in Natrona County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waltman
      • Petrie
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Petrie is located in Natrona County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petrie
      • Beck Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Beck Place is located in Natrona County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beck Place
      • Arminto
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Arminto is located in Natrona County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arminto
      • Bucknum
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Bucknum is located in Natrona County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucknum
      • Hiland
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Raderville
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Raderville is located in Natrona County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raderville
      • Osborne Place
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Osborne Place is located in Natrona County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osborne Place
      • Illco
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Illco is located in Natrona County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Illco
      • Blue Hill ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Blue Hill is located in Natrona County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Hill
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Bishop
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Bishop is located in Natrona County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop
        • Cadoma
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Cadoma is located in Natrona County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadoma
        • Camel Hump
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Camel Hump is located in Natrona County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camel Hump
        • Air Base Acres
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Air Base Acres is located in Natrona County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Air Base Acres
        • Badwater
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Badwater is located in Natrona County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badwater
        • Swaim Place
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Swaim Place is located in Natrona County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swaim Place
        • Bessemer ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Bessemer is located in Natrona County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bessemer
        • Vista West
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Vista West is located in Natrona County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista West
        • Bessemer Bend
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Bessemer Bend is located in Natrona County
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  • Fremont 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Powder River) 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.