Nearest Communities to Alpine,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Alpine, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Alpine:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Alpine is located in Rio Grande County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Rio Grande County: Alamosa, Archuleta, Conejos, Mineral & Saguache.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Alpine. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Rio Grande 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 Alpine (which is Rio Grande 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 Alpine
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Rio Grande County (where Alpine resides)
- County Website: www.riograndecounty.org/
- County Seat for Rio Grande: Del Norte
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Grande County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Grande County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Grande County
- Nearest Communities to Alpine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alpine.
- Gerrard
(Less than 2 miles to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerrard
- Gerrard is located in Rio Grande County
- Agua Ramon
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agua Ramon
- Agua Ramon is located in Rio Grande County
- South Fork
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork
- South Fork is located in Rio Grande County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 425 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for South Fork <4>
- Baxterville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baxterville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxterville
- Baxterville is located in Rio Grande County
- Hanna
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east) - Del Norte
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Del Norte
- Del Norte is located in Rio Grande County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,541 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Del Norte <4>
- Evansville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Evansville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evansville
- Evansville is located in Rio Grande County
- Summitville ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summitville
- Summitville is located in Rio Grande County
- Sevenmile Plaza
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sevenmile Plaza have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Plaza
- Sevenmile Plaza is located in Rio Grande County
- Jasper ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south) - Torres
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east) - Maxeyville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Maxeyville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxeyville
- Maxeyville is located in Rio Grande County
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- Monte Vista
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Monte Vista have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monte Vista
- Monte Vista is located in Rio Grande County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,067 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Monte Vista <4>
- Ansel
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east) - Center
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center
- Center is located in Rio Grande County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,385 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Center <4>
- Dunul
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east) - Vastine
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east) - Sugar Junction
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sugar Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Junction
- Sugar Junction is located in Rio Grande County
- Homelake
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Homelake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homelake
- Homelake is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Homelake <4>
- Zinzer
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Monte Vista
- Conejos County
- County Seat for Conejos: Conejos
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Conejos County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Conejos County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Conejos County
- Nearest Communities to Alpine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alpine.
- Platoro
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Platoro
- Platoro is located in Conejos County
- Three Forks
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Three Forks have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Forks
- Three Forks is located in Conejos County
- Mineral County
- County Seat for Mineral: Creede
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Mineral County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Mineral County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Mineral County
- Nearest Communities to Alpine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alpine.
- Spar City ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west) - Creede
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creede
- Creede is located in Mineral County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 315 people
- Former name for Creede:
- Amethyst
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Creede <4>
- North Creede
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Creede have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Creede
- North Creede is located in Mineral County
- Sunnyside
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest) - Bachelor City ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bachelor City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bachelor City
- Bachelor City is located in Mineral County
- Weaver ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Saguache County
- County Website: www.slv.org/saguachecounty/
- County Seat for Saguache: Saguache
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Saguache County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Saguache County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Saguache County
- Nearest Communities to Alpine ...
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- Alpine) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Alpine. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6892, Longitude: -106.5889 In this case, the coordinates for Alpine 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |