Nearest Communities to Washam,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Washam, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Washam:
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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Washam.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Washam 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 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Washam. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Sweetwater 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 Washam (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 Washam
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Sweetwater County (where Washam resides)
- County Website: https://sweetwatercountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Sweetwater: Green River
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Washam ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Washam.
- McKinnon
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- McKinnon is located in Sweetwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKinnon
- Rendezvous
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Rendezvous is located in Sweetwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rendezvous
- Burntfork
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Burntfork is located in Sweetwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burntfork
- Squaw Hollow ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Squaw Hollow is located in Sweetwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squaw Hollow
- Buckboard Crossing
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Buckboard Crossing is located in Sweetwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckboard Crossing
- Greenhough Place
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Greenhough Place is located in Sweetwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhough Place
- Uinta County
- Daggett County
- County Website: https://www.daggettcounty.gov/
- County Seat for Daggett: Manila (UT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Washam ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Washam.
- Manila
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Manila is located in Daggett County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manila
- Population from the 2020 Census: 335 people
- Former names for Manila:
- Chambers
- Lewisallen
- Lucerne
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manila <3>
- Linwood ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Linwood is located in Daggett County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linwood
- Flaming Gorge Summer Home Area
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Greendale ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Greendale is located in Daggett County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greendale
- Swett Ranch ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Swett Ranch is located in Daggett County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swett Ranch
- Flaming Gorge Lodge
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Flaming Gorge Lodge is located in Daggett County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flaming Gorge Lodge
- Dutch John
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Deer Lodge Summer Home Area
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Uintah County
- County Website: https://www.uintah.gov/
- County Seat for Uintah: Vernal (UT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Washam ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Washam.
- Dyer ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Dyer is located in Uintah County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyer
- Bullionville ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Bullionville is located in Uintah County (UT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullionville
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Washam) 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. |