Nearest Communities to Brookfield,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Brookfield, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Brookfield:
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 starting from Brookfield.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Brookfield is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Baca County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Baca County: Bent, Las Animas, Prowers, Morton (KS), Stanton (KS), Union (NM) & Cimarron (OK).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Brookfield. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Baca 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 Brookfield (which is Baca 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 Brookfield
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Baca County (where Brookfield resides)
- County Seat for Baca: Springfield
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Baca County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Baca County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Baca County
- Nearest Communities to Brookfield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Brookfield.
- Harboro
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south) - Deora
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west) - Frick
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west) - Antelope Springs
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Antelope Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope Springs
- Antelope Springs is located in Baca County
- Graft
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south) - Atlanta
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest) - Murray Place
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Murray Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murray Place
- Murray Place is located in Baca County
- Prichett
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Pritchett
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pritchett have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pritchett
- Pritchett is located in Baca County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 130 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pritchett <5>
- Springfield
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Springfield have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield
- Springfield is located in Baca County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,364 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Springfield <5>
- Liberty
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Two Buttes
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Buttes
- Two Buttes is located in Baca County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 40 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Two Buttes <5>
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- Utleyville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Utleyville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utleyville
- Utleyville is located in Baca County
- Vilas
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vilas have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vilas
- Vilas is located in Baca County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 106 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vilas <5>
- Bisonte
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Edler
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Utleyville
- Bent County
- County Seat for Bent: Las Animas
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Bent County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Bent County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Bent County
- Nearest Communities to Brookfield ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Brookfield.
- Ruxton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest) - Toonerville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Toonerville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toonerville
- Toonerville is located in Bent County
- Ninaview
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Four Corners Crossing
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Four Corners Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Corners Crossing
- Four Corners Crossing is located in Bent County
- Gilpin
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- 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 Brookfield ...
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- Brookfield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brookfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.5939, Longitude: -102.8421 In this case, the coordinates for Brookfield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Brookfield, 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> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |