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Nearest Communities to Blue Mountain,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 west contained birth and death records; the county to the north 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 Blue Mountain.<1>

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

Blue Mountain is located in Moffat County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Moffat County: Rio Blanco, Routt, Daggett (UT), Uintah (UT), Carbon (WY) & Sweetwater (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Blue Mountain. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Moffat 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 Blue Mountain (which is Moffat 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 Blue Mountain

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

  • Moffat County   (where Blue Mountain resides)
    • County Website:   https://moffatcounty.colorado.gov/
    • County Seat for Moffat:   Craig
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Blue Mountain   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Blue Mountain.
      • Dinosaur
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Jack Springs
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Jack Springs is located in Moffat County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jack Springs
      • Massadona
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Massadona is located in Moffat County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Massadona
      • Robinson Place
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Robinson Place is located in Moffat County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Place
      • Elk Springs
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Elk Springs is located in Moffat County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Springs
      • Greystone
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Greystone is located in Moffat County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greystone
  • Rio Blanco County
  • Uintah County
    • County Website:   https://www.uintah.gov/
    • County Seat for Uintah:   Vernal (UT)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Blue Mountain   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Blue Mountain.
      • Bonanza
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Bonanza is located in Uintah County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
      • Little Bonanza
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Little Bonanza is located in Uintah County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Bonanza
      • Red Wash
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Red Wash is located in Uintah County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Wash
      • Ignatio ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Ignatio is located in Uintah County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ignatio
        • Ignatio has also been known as:
        • Ignacio
        • White River Station
      • Jensen
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Escalante Crossing
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Escalante Crossing is located in Uintah County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escalante Crossing
      • Watson ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Watson is located in Uintah County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watson

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- Blue Mountain) 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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