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Nearest Communities to Mesa Verde,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 starting from Mesa Verde.<1>

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

Mesa Verde is located in Riverside County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Riverside County: La Paz (AZ), Imperial, Orange, San Bernardino & San Diego.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mesa Verde. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Riverside 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 Mesa Verde (which is Riverside 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 Mesa Verde

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

  • Riverside County   (where Mesa Verde resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.riverside.ca.us/
    • County Seat for Riverside:   Riverside
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mesa Verde   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mesa Verde.
      • Miller Farms
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miller Farms have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller Farms
        • Miller Farms is located in Riverside County
      • Ripley
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ripley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripley
        • Ripley is located in Riverside County
      • Blythe
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Mesaville
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mesaville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesaville
        • Mesaville is located in Riverside County
      • East Blythe
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Rannells ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rannells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rannells
        • Rannells is located in Riverside County
      • Tosco ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tosco have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tosco
        • Tosco is located in Riverside County
      • Inca
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Inca have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inca
        • Inca is located in Riverside County
      • Cox
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cox have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cox
        • Cox is located in Riverside County
      • Midland ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Styx
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Styx have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Styx
        • Styx is located in Riverside County
  • Imperial County
  • La Paz County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Mesa Verde) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mesa Verde. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.6055, Longitude: -114.7275    
<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.




 

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