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 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 Seat for Otero: La Junta
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Otero County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Otero County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Otero County
- Nearest Communities to Bloom ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bloom.
- Mindeman
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast) - Ayer
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast) - Timpas
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast) - Benton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast) - Hawley
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawley
- Hawley is located in Otero County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Hawley
- From Bloom to Hawley
- Roberta
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast) - Higbee
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Higbee. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higbee
- Higbee is located in Otero County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Higbee
- From Bloom to Higbee
- Ormega
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast) - Fayette
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north) - Vroman
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north) - Krammes
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast) - Newdale
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast) - Continue List (6 more) ...
- Swink
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Swink have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swink
- Swink is located in Otero County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 595 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Swink <5>
- Manzanola
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manzanola have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manzanola
- Manzanola is located in Otero County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 410 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manzanola <5>
- Elder
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north) - Fowler
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fowler
- Fowler is located in Otero County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,149 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fowler <5>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Fowler
- From Bloom to Fowler
- La Junta Gardens
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for La Junta Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Junta Gardens
- La Junta Gardens is located in Otero County
- La Junta
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Junta
- La Junta is located in Otero County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,854 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for La Junta <5>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to La Junta
- From Bloom to La Junta
- Swink
- Las Animas County
- County Website: www.tlac.net/county/
- County Seat for Las Animas: Trinidad
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Las Animas County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Las Animas County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Las Animas County
- Nearest Communities to Bloom ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bloom.
- Delhi
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest) - Houghton ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Houghton
- Houghton is located in Las Animas County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Houghton
- From Bloom to Houghton
- Thatcher
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Thatcher. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thatcher
- Thatcher is located in Las Animas County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Thatcher
- From Bloom to Thatcher
- Simpson
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest) - Tyrone
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyrone
- Tyrone is located in Las Animas County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Tyrone
- From Bloom to Tyrone
- Model
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Model
- Model is located in Las Animas County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Model <5>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Model
- From Bloom to Model
- Troy ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Troy. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
- Troy is located in Las Animas County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Troy
- From Bloom to Troy
- Earl
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Pueblo County
- County Website: www.co.pueblo.co.us/
- County Seat for Pueblo: Pueblo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Pueblo County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Pueblo County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Pueblo County
- Nearest Communities to Bloom ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bloom.
- Rock Crossing
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Crossing
- Rock Crossing is located in Pueblo County
- Whiterock
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest) - Cedar Crest
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Crest have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Crest
- Cedar Crest is located in 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 from Point A (ie- Bloom) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bloom. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6880, Longitude: -103.9569 In this case, the coordinates for Bloom 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> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
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