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Nearest Communities to Red Lane,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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

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


Red Lane is located in Hot Springs County.

The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hot Springs County: Fremont, Park & Washakie.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Red Lane. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Hot Springs 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 Lane (which is Hot Springs 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 Lane

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

  • Hot Springs County   (where Red Lane resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.hscounty.com/
    • County Seat for Hot Springs:   Thermopolis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Lane   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Lane.
      • East Thermopolis
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
        • East Thermopolis is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Thermopolis
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
      • Thermopolis
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Lucerne
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Lucerne is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucerne
      • Minnesela
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Minnesela is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnesela
      • Gebo ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Gebo is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gebo
      • Kirby
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Kirby is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirby
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 84 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kirby <3>
      • Nickelson Place
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Nickelson Place is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nickelson Place
      • Dornick
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Dornick is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dornick
      • Hamilton Dome
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Owl Creek
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Owl Creek is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owl Creek
      • Embar
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Embar is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Embar
      • Grass Creek
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Grass Creek is located in Hot Springs County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Creek
  • Fremont County
    • County Website:   https://www.fremontcountywy.org/
    • County Seat for Fremont:   Lander
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Lane   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Lane.
      • Boysen
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Boysen is located in Fremont County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boysen
      • Siddons
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Siddons is located in Fremont County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siddons
      • Bonneville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Bonneville is located in Fremont County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonneville
      • Shoshoni
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Washakie County
    • County Website:   https://www.washakiecountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Washakie:   Worland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Lane   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Lane.
      • Winchester
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Winchester is located in Washakie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester
      • Neiber ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Neiber is located in Washakie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neiber
      • South Flat
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • South Flat is located in Washakie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Flat
      • Colter
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Colter is located in Washakie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colter
      • McNutt
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • McNutt is located in Washakie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNutt
      • Airport Road
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Airport Road is located in Washakie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airport Road
      • Worland
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Red Lane) 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.