Nearest Communities to West Thumb,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to West Thumb, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for West Thumb:
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 West Thumb.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
West Thumb is located in Teton County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Teton County: Bonneville (ID), Fremont (ID), Teton (ID), Gallatin (MT), Fremont, Lincoln, Park & Sublette.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 6 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of West Thumb. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Teton 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 West Thumb (which is Teton 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 West Thumb
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Teton County (where West Thumb resides)
- County Website: www.tetonwyo.org/
- County Seat for Teton: Jackson
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Teton County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Teton County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Teton County
- Nearest Communities to West Thumb ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from West Thumb.
- Lake
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake
- Lake is located in Teton County
- Three River Junction
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Three River Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three River Junction
- Three River Junction is located in Teton County
- Park County
- County Website: www.parkcounty.us/
- County Seat for Park: Cody
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Wyoming
- Park County
- From Family Search:
- State of Wyoming
- Park County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Wyoming
- Park County
- Nearest Communities to West Thumb ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from West Thumb.
- Canyon Junction
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Canyon Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Junction
- Canyon Junction is located in Park County
- Canyon Village
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Canyon Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Village
- Canyon Village is located in Park County
- Pahaska Tepee
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pahaska Tepee have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pahaska Tepee
- Pahaska Tepee is located in Park County
- Gallatin County
- County Website: www.co.gallatin.mt.us/
- County Seat for Gallatin: Bozeman (MT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Montana
- Gallatin County
- From Family Search:
- State of Montana
- Gallatin County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Montana
- Gallatin County
- Nearest Communities to West Thumb ...
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 from Point A (ie- West Thumb) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Thumb. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.4155, Longitude: -110.5755 In this case, the coordinates for West Thumb 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. |