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Nearest Communities to Spence,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 Spence.<1>

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

Spence is located in Big Horn County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Big Horn County: Big Horn (MT), Carbon (MT), Johnson, Park, Sheridan & Washakie.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Spence. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Big Horn 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 Spence (which is Big Horn 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 Spence

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

  • Big Horn County   (where Spence resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.bighorncountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Big Horn:   Basin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Spence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Spence.
      • Stucco
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
        • Stucco is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stucco
      • Himes
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Himes is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Himes
      • Greybull
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Kane ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Kane is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kane
      • Flitners Corner
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Flitners Corner is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flitners Corner
      • Reeves Corner
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Reeves Corner is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeves Corner
      • Emblem
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Basin
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Basin is located in Big Horn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basin
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,257 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Basin <3>
      • Otto
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Shell
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Lovell
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Burlington
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Byron
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Cowley
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Manderson
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Deaver
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Laramie County
  • Park County
    • County Website:   https://parkcounty-wy.gov/
    • County Seat for Park:   Cody
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Spence   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Spence.
      • Fenton
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Fenton is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fenton
      • Garland
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Garland is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
      • Lone Tree Crossing
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Lone Tree Crossing is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Tree Crossing

Footnotes ...

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