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

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

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 starting from Battlement Mesa.<1>

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

Battlement Mesa is located in Garfield County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Garfield County: Eagle, Mesa, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Routt, Grand (UT) & Uintah (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Battlement Mesa. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Garfield 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 Battlement Mesa (which is Garfield 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 Battlement Mesa

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

  • Garfield County   (where Battlement Mesa resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.garfieldcountyco.gov/
    • County Seat for Garfield:   Glenwood Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Battlement Mesa   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Battlement Mesa.
      • Parachute
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
        • 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>
      • Rulison
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Rulison is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rulison
      • Una
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Una is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Una
      • Anvil Points
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Anvil Points is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anvil Points
      • Lacy
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Lacy is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacy
      • Rifle
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Rifle is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rifle
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,775 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rifle <3>
      • Antlers
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Antlers is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antlers
      • Silt
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Silt is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silt
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,109 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Silt <3>
      • New Castle
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Delta County
  • Mesa County
    • County Website:   https://www.mesacounty.us/
    • County Seat for Mesa:   Grand Junction
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Battlement Mesa   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Battlement Mesa.
      • De Beque
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Collbran
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Plateau City
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Plateau City is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plateau City
      • Heiberger
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Heiberger is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heiberger
      • Molina
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Akin
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Akin is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akin
      • Mesa
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • John Held Corner
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • John Held Corner is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for John Held Corner
      • Cameo
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Cameo is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cameo
      • Mesa Lakes Resort
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Mesa Lakes Resort is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Lakes Resort
      • Mesa Lakes
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Mesa Lakes is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Lakes
      • Palisade
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Mount Lincoln
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Mount Lincoln is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Lincoln
  • Rio Blanco County

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 from Point A (ie- Battlement Mesa) 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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