Nearest Communities to Bear River,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Bear River, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Bear River:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Keep in mind 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Bear River is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Routt County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Routt County: Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco & Carbon (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bear River. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Routt County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Bear River (which is Routt 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 Bear River
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Routt County (where Bear River resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.routt.co.us/
- County Seat for Routt: Steamboat Springs
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bear River ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bear River.
- Mount Harris
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Mount Harris is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Harris
- McGregor
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- McGregor is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGregor
- Milner
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Milner is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milner
- Hayden
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Mystic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Mystic is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mystic
- Steamboat II
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Steamboat II is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steamboat II
- Trull ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Trull is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trull
- Elkhead
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Elkhead is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhead
- Mad Creek
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Mad Creek is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mad Creek
- Dunckley
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Dunckley is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunckley
- Haybro
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Haybro is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haybro
- Steamboat Springs
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Continue List (12 more) ...
- Keystone
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Keystone is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
- Sidney
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Sidney is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
- Oak Creek
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Clark
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Pagoda
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Pagoda is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pagoda
- Glen Eden
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Glen Eden is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Eden
- Phippsburg
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Hahns Peak
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Hahns Peak is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hahns Peak
- Yampa
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Columbine
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Columbine is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbine
- Slavonia
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Slavonia is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slavonia
- Trapper
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Trapper is located in Routt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trapper
- Moffat County
- County Website: https://moffatcounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Moffat: Craig
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bear River ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bear River.
- Craig
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Craig is located in Moffat County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,953 people
- Former names for Craig:
- Rosedale
- Yampa
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Craig <4>
- Craig South Highlands
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Hamilton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
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- Bear River) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bear River, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |