Nearest Communities to Red Desert,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Red Desert, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Red Desert:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 from Red Desert.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Red Desert is located in Sweetwater County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sweetwater County: Moffat (CO), Daggett (UT), Summit (UT), Carbon, Fremont, Lincoln, Sublette & Uinta.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 16 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Red Desert. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Sweetwater 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 Red Desert (which is Sweetwater 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 Red Desert
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Sweetwater County (where Red Desert resides)
- 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 Red Desert ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Red Desert.
- Frewen ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east) - Wamsutter
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wamsutter
- Wamsutter is located in Sweetwater County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 467 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wamsutter <4>
- Tipton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west) - Robinson
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west) - Table Rock
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Table Rock
- Table Rock is located in Sweetwater County
- Latham
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east) - J O Junction
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for J O Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for J O Junction
- J O Junction is located in Sweetwater County
- Creston
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east) - Monell
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west) - Continue List (6 more) ...
- Creston Junction
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Creston Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston Junction
- Creston Junction is located in Sweetwater County
- Fort LaClede ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort LaClede have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort LaClede
- Fort LaClede is located in Sweetwater County
- Bitter Creek
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bitter Creek. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bitter Creek
- Bitter Creek is located in Sweetwater County
- Cherokee
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east) - Riner
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Black Buttes
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Black Buttes have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Buttes
- Black Buttes is located in Sweetwater County
- Creston Junction
- Carbon County
- 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 Red Desert ...
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- Red Desert) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Red Desert. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.6536, Longitude: -108.1218 In this case, the coordinates for Red Desert have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |