Nearest Communities to Akin,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Akin, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Akin:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Akin is located in Mesa County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mesa County: Delta, Garfield, Gunnison, Montrose, Pitkin & Grand (UT).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 43 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Akin. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Mesa 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 Akin (which is Mesa 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 Akin
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Mesa County (where Akin resides)
- County Website: https://www.mesacounty.us/
- County Seat for Mesa: Grand Junction
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Akin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Akin.
- De Beque
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Cameo
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Cameo is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cameo
- Mesa
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- John Held Corner
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- John Held Corner is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for John Held Corner
- Molina
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Palisade
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Mount Lincoln
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mount Lincoln is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Lincoln
- Bridges Switch
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Bridges Switch is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridges Switch
- Plateau City
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Plateau City is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plateau City
- Clifton
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Collbran
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Mesa Lakes Resort
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Mesa Lakes Resort is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Lakes Resort
- Continue List (19 more) ...
- Mesa Lakes
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Mesa Lakes is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Lakes
- Fruitvale
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Highland Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Highland Park is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Park
- Johnsons Corner
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Johnsons Corner is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsons Corner
- Pear Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Pear Park is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pear Park
- Appleton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Appleton is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Appleton
- Grand Junction
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Whitewater
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Durham
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Durham is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durham
- Orchard Mesa
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Orchard Mesa is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard Mesa
- Rosevale
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Rosevale is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosevale
- Kannah
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Kannah is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kannah
- Redlands
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Redlands is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redlands
- Rhone
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Rhone is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhone
- Heiberger
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Heiberger is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heiberger
- Fruita
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Gilsonite
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Gilsonite is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilsonite
- Bridgeport
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Bridgeport is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
- Loma
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Delta County
- County Website: https://www.deltacountyco.gov/
- County Seat for Delta: Delta
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Akin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Akin.
- Grand Mesa
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Grand Mesa is located in Delta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Mesa
- Brimstone Corner
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Brimstone Corner is located in Delta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brimstone Corner
- Colby
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Colby is located in Delta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colby
- Broughton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Broughton is located in Delta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broughton
- Peeples
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Peeples is located in Delta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peeples
- Cedaredge
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Garfield County
- County Website: https://www.garfieldcountyco.gov/
- County Seat for Garfield: Glenwood Springs
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Akin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Akin.
- Una
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Una is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Una
- Parachute
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Parachute is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parachute
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,114 people
- Former name for Parachute:
- Grand Valley
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Parachute <3>
- Battlement Mesa
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Rulison
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Rulison is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rulison
- Anvil Points
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Anvil Points is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anvil Points
- Lacy
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lacy is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacy
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Akin) 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. |
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