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Nearest Communities to Sweeney Ranch,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 Sweeney Ranch.<1>

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


Sweeney Ranch 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 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sweeney Ranch.

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 Sweeney Ranch (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 Sweeney Ranch

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

  • Sweetwater County   (where Sweeney Ranch resides)
    • County Website:   https://sweetwatercountywy.gov/
    • County Seat for Sweetwater:   Green River
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    • Nearest Communities to Sweeney Ranch   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sweeney Ranch.
      • Arrowhead Springs
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Arrowhead Springs is located in Sweetwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrowhead Springs
      • South Baxter
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • South Baxter is located in Sweetwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Baxter
      • Baxter
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Baxter is located in Sweetwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxter
      • Quealy
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Quealy is located in Sweetwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quealy
      • Salt Wells
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Salt Wells is located in Sweetwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Wells
      • Rock Springs
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Blairtown
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Blairtown is located in Sweetwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blairtown
      • Thayer Junction
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Thayer Junction is located in Sweetwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thayer Junction
      • Clearview Acres
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Clearview Acres is located in Sweetwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearview Acres
      • Black Buttes
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Black Buttes is located in Sweetwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Buttes
      • Hallville
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Hallville is located in Sweetwater County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hallville
      • Reliance
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Continue List   (18 more) ...
        • Purple Sage
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
          • Purple Sage is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purple Sage
        • North Rock Springs
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
          • North Rock Springs is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Rock Springs
        • Stansbury ‑ Historic
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Stansbury is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stansbury
        • Kanda
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
          • Kanda is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanda
        • Point of Rocks
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Dines ‑ Historic
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
          • Dines is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dines
        • South Superior
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
          • South Superior is located in Sweetwater County
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        • Superior
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Winton Junction
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Winton Junction is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winton Junction
        • Winton ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Winton is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winton
        • Green River
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Bitter Creek
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Bitter Creek is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bitter Creek
        • James Town
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • James Town is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James Town
        • Riovista
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Riovista is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riovista
        • Riview
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Riview is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riview
        • Monell
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Monell is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monell
        • Greenhough Place
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Greenhough Place is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhough Place
        • Peru
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Peru is located in Sweetwater County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru

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- Sweeney Ranch) 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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