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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 doctors 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.

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.

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 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Spence. Of these communities, 5 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 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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stucco have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stucco
        • Stucco is located in Big Horn County
      • Himes
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Himes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Himes
        • Himes is located in Big Horn County
      • Greybull
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Kane ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Kane. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kane
        • Kane is located in Big Horn County
      • Flitners Corner
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flitners Corner
        • Flitners Corner is located in Big Horn County
      • Reeves Corner
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reeves Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeves Corner
        • Reeves Corner is located in Big Horn County
      • Emblem
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Basin
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basin
        • Basin is located in Big Horn County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,257 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Basin <4>
      • 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:   www.parkcounty.us/
    • 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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fenton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fenton
        • Fenton is located in Park County
      • Garland
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
        • Garland is located in Park County
      • Mantua
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mantua have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mantua
        • Mantua is located in Park County
      • Lone Tree Crossing
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lone Tree Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Tree Crossing
        • Lone Tree Crossing is located in Park County

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Spence) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Spence. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.6336, Longitude: -108.1323       In this case, the coordinates for Spence 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>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.




 

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