Nearest Communities to Big Bend,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Big Bend, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Big Bend:
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.
Big Bend is located in Bent County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bent County: Baca, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero & Prowers.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 46 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Big Bend. Of these communities, 27 are located in counties other than Bent 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 Big Bend (which is Bent 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 Big Bend
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Bent County (where Big Bend resides)
- County Website: https://www.bentcounty.net/
- County Seat for Bent: Las Animas
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Big Bend ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Bend.
- Keesee
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Keesee is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keesee
- McClave
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Old Fort Lyons
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Old Fort Lyons is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Fort Lyons
- Prowers
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Prowers is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prowers
- Lubers
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Lubers is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lubers
- Able
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Able is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Able
- Four Corners Crossing
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Hasty
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Caddoa ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Caddoa is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caddoa
- Hilton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Hilton is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilton
- Kreybill
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Kreybill is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kreybill
- Keller
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Keller is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keller
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- Fort Lyon
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Las Animas Junction
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Las Animas Junction is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Animas Junction
- Melina
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Melina is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melina
- Boggsville ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Boggsville is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boggsville
- Las Animas
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Gilpin
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Gilpin is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilpin
- Cornelia
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Cornelia is located in Bent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornelia
- Kiowa County
- County Website: https://kiowacounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Kiowa: Eads
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Big Bend ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Bend.
- Eads
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Chivington
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Chivington is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chivington
- Hawkins
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Hawkins is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkins
- Brandon
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Brandon is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandon
- Water Valley
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Water Valley is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water Valley
- Galatea
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Galatea is located in Kiowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galatea
- Haswell
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Sheridan Lake
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Prowers County
- County Website: https://www.prowersco.gov/
- County Seat for Prowers: Lamar
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Big Bend ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Bend.
- Wiley
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Sugar
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Sugar is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar
- May Valley
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- May Valley is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May Valley
- Beta
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Beta is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beta
- Culp
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Culp is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Culp
- Kornman
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Kornman is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kornman
- Lamar
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Channing
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Channing is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Channing
- West Farm
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- West Farm is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Farm
- Karl
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Karl is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Karl
- Goodale
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Goodale is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodale
- Carlton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Carlton is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- Grote
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Grote is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grote
- Parrish
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Parrish is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parrish
- Koen
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Koen is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koen
- Bristol
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Bristol is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bristol
- Granada
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Warwick
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Warwick is located in Prowers County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warwick
- Hartman
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Big Bend) 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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