Nearest Communities to Sand Draw,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sand Draw, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sand Draw:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Sand Draw.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sand Draw is located in Fremont County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Fremont County: Carbon, Hot Springs, Natrona, Park, Sublette, Sweetwater, Teton & Washakie.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sand Draw.
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 Sand Draw (which is Fremont 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 Sand Draw
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Fremont County (where Sand Draw resides)
- County Website: https://www.fremontcountywy.org/
- County Seat for Fremont: Lander
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sand Draw ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand Draw.
- Myersville ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Myersville is located in Fremont County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myersville
- Sweetwater Crossing
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Sweetwater Crossing is located in Fremont County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater Crossing
- Sweetwater Station
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Sweetwater Station is located in Fremont County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater Station
- Saint Stephens
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Arapahoe
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Riverton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Kotey Place
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Kotey Place is located in Fremont County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kotey Place
- Delfelder
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Delfelder is located in Fremont County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delfelder
- Hudson
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- French George Crossing
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Jeffrey City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Wyopo
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Wyopo is located in Fremont County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyopo
- Lander
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Miners Delight ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Miners Delight is located in Fremont County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miners Delight
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 from Point A (ie- Sand Draw) 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. |
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