Nearest Communities to Thornton,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Thornton, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Thornton:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Thornton.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Thornton is located in Weston County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Weston County: Custer (SD), Lawrence (SD), Pennington (SD), Campbell, Converse, Crook & Niobrara.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Thornton. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Weston 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 Thornton (which is Weston 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 Thornton
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Weston County (where Thornton resides)
- County Seat for Weston: Newcastle
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Weston County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Weston County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Weston County
- Nearest Communities to Thornton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Thornton.
- Bentley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast) - Colloid
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast) - Upton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upton
- Upton is located in Weston County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,032 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Upton <4>
- Jerome
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast) - Clay Spur
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clay Spur
- Clay Spur is located in Weston County
- Skull Creek
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Skull Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skull Creek
- Skull Creek is located in Weston County
- Osage
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osage
- Osage is located in Weston County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Osage <4>
- Fairview
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south) - Horton ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east) - Pedro
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast) - Four Corners
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Corners
- Four Corners is located in Weston County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Four Corners <4>
- Cambria ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Campbell County
- County Website: www.ccg.co.campbell.wy.us/
- County Seat for Campbell: Gillette
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Campbell County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Campbell County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Campbell County
- Nearest Communities to Thornton ...
- Rozet
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rozet
- Rozet is located in Campbell County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rozet <4>
- Rozet
- Crook County
- County Seat for Crook: Sundance
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Crook County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Crook County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Crook County
- Nearest Communities to Thornton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Thornton.
- Kara
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest) - Moorcroft
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moorcroft
- Moorcroft is located in Crook County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,084 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moorcroft <4>
- Linden
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast) - Pine Haven
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Haven
- Pine Haven is located in Crook County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 559 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pine Haven <4>
- Carlile
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlile
- Carlile is located in Crook County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carlile <4>
- Carlile Junction
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carlile Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlile Junction
- Carlile Junction is located in Crook County
- Sundance
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sundance
- Sundance is located in Crook County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,296 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sundance <4>
- Moskee ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east) - Devils Tower
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Tower
- Devils Tower is located in Crook County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Devils Tower <4>
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- Thornton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Thornton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.1609, Longitude: -104.7384 In this case, the coordinates for Thornton 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. |