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Nearest Communities to Yellowstone National Park,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 starting from Yellowstone National Park.<1>

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

Yellowstone National Park is located in Park County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Park County: Carbon (MT), Gallatin (MT), Park (MT), Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Teton & Washakie.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Yellowstone National Park. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Park 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 Yellowstone National Park (which is Park 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 Yellowstone National Park

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

  • Park County   (where Yellowstone National Park resides)
  • Teton County
  • Fremont County
    • County Website:   https://co.fremont.id.us/
    • County Seat for Fremont:   Saint Anthony (ID)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Yellowstone National Park   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Yellowstone National Park.
      • Big Springs
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Big Springs is located in Fremont County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Springs
      • Eccles
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Eccles is located in Fremont County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eccles
      • Flat Rock
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Flat Rock is located in Fremont County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Rock
      • Island Park
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Macks Inn
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Trude
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Trude is located in Fremont County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trude
      • Pineview
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Pineview is located in Fremont County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pineview
      • Gerrit
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Gerrit is located in Fremont County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerrit
      • Box Canyon
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Last Chance
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Last Chance is located in Fremont County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Last Chance
      • Rea
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Rea is located in Fremont County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rea
  • Gallatin County
    • County Website:   https://www.gallatinmt.gov/
    • County Seat for Gallatin:   Bozeman (MT)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Yellowstone National Park   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Yellowstone National Park.
      • Riverside
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Riverside is located in Gallatin County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
      • West Yellowstone
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Corette
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Corette is located in Gallatin County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corette
      • Railroad Summer Home Area
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Lakeshore Summer Home Area
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Lonesome Hurst Summer Home Area
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Romsett Summer Home Area
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Grayling
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Grayling is located in Gallatin County (MT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grayling

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Yellowstone National Park) 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.