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Nearest Communities to Bloom,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Bloom.<1>

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

Bloom is located in Otero County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Otero County: Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas & Pueblo.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bloom. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Otero 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 Bloom (which is Otero 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 Bloom

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

  • Otero County   (where Bloom resides)
    • County Website:   https://oterocounty.colorado.gov/
    • County Seat for Otero:   La Junta
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bloom   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bloom.
      • Mindeman
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Mindeman is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mindeman
      • Ayer
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Ayer is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ayer
      • Timpas
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Timpas is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timpas
      • Benton
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Benton is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton
      • Hawley
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Roberta
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Roberta is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberta
      • Higbee
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Ormega
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Ormega is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ormega
      • Fayette
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Fayette is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fayette
      • Vroman
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Vroman is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vroman
      • Krammes
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Krammes is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krammes
      • Newdale
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Newdale is located in Otero County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newdale
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Swink
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Manzanola
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Elder
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Elder is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elder
        • Fowler
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • La Junta Gardens
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • La Junta Gardens is located in Otero County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Junta Gardens
        • La Junta
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Las Animas County
  • Pueblo County

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- Bloom) 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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