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Nearest Communities to Coburn,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 starting from Coburn.<1>

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

Coburn is located in Delta County.

The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Delta County: Gunnison, Mesa & Montrose.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 45 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Coburn. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Delta 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 Coburn (which is Delta 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 Coburn

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

  • Delta County   (where Coburn resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.deltacountyco.gov/
    • County Seat for Delta:   Delta
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Coburn   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Coburn.
      • Paonia
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Hotchkiss
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Bowie
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Bowie is located in Delta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowie
        • Former names for Bowie:
        • Reading
        • Wauneta
      • Juanita Junction
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Juanita Junction is located in Delta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juanita Junction
      • Crawford
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Lazear
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Rogers Mesa
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Rogers Mesa is located in Delta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogers Mesa
      • Payne
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Payne is located in Delta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Payne
      • Cedaredge
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Austin
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Eckert
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Orchard City
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Orchard City is located in Delta County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard City
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,242 people
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Saxton
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
          • Saxton is located in Delta County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saxton
        • Brimstone Corner
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Brimstone Corner is located in Delta County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brimstone Corner
        • Colby
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Colby is located in Delta County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colby
        • Cory
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Read
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Read is located in Delta County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Read
        • Saunders
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Saunders is located in Delta County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saunders
        • Grand Mesa
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Grand Mesa is located in Delta County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Mesa
        • Chipeta
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Chipeta is located in Delta County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chipeta
        • Delta
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • North Delta
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
          • North Delta is located in Delta County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Delta
        • Roubideau
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Roubideau is located in Delta County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roubideau
  • Gunnison County
    • County Website:   https://www.gunnisoncounty.org/
    • County Seat for Gunnison:   Gunnison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Coburn   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Coburn.
      • Somerset
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Harry Parker Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Harry Parker Place is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harry Parker Place
      • Patterson Place
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Patterson Place is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson Place
      • Floresta ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Floresta is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floresta
      • Irwin ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Irwin is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
      • Marble
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Ruby
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Ruby is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby
  • Mesa County
  • Montrose County
    • County Website:   https://www.montrosecounty.net/
    • County Seat for Montrose:   Montrose
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Coburn   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Coburn.
      • Maher
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Olathe
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Cedar Creek
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Cedar Creek is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek
      • Lujane
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Lujane is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lujane
      • Fairview
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Fairview is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Frost
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Frost is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost
      • Roe
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Roe is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roe
      • Cimarron
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Hoovers Corner
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Hoovers Corner is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoovers Corner
      • Montrose
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Pea Green Corner
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Pea Green Corner is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pea Green Corner
  • Pitkin 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- Coburn) 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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