Nearest Communities to Rawlins,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Rawlins, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Rawlins:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Rawlins is located in Carbon County and is the County Seat.
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 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rawlins. Of these communities, 4 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 Rawlins (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 Rawlins
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Carbon County (where Rawlins resides)
- County Seat for Carbon: Rawlins
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Carbon County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Carbon County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Carbon County
- Nearest Communities to Rawlins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Rawlins.
- Sinclair
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sinclair
- Sinclair is located in Carbon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 389 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sinclair <3>
- Hadsell
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west) - Fort Steele ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Steele
- Fort Steele is located in Carbon County
- Walcott
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walcott
- Walcott is located in Carbon County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Walcott <3>
- Old McKeal Place
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old McKeal Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old McKeal Place
- Old McKeal Place is located in Carbon County
- Edson
(23 miles [37 km] to the east) - Coyote Springs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coyote Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Springs
- Coyote Springs is located in Carbon County
- Meads
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east) - Old Haymaker Place
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Haymaker Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Haymaker Place
- Old Haymaker Place is located in Carbon County
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Overland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - Dana
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Ferris ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north) - McCargar Place
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCargar Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCargar Place
- McCargar Place is located in Carbon County
- Marvin Place ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marvin Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marvin Place
- Marvin Place is located in Carbon County
- Seminoe Dam
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Seminoe Dam have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seminoe Dam
- Seminoe Dam is located in Carbon County
- Overland
- Sweetwater County
- County Website: www.co.sweet.wy.us/
- County Seat for Sweetwater: Green River
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Sweetwater County
- Nearest Communities to Rawlins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Rawlins.
- Riner
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west) - Cherokee
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west) - Creston Junction
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Creston Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston Junction
- Creston Junction is located in Sweetwater County
- Creston
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
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- Rawlins) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rawlins. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7929, Longitude: -107.2396 |
| <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. |