Nearest Communities to Cortez,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Cortez, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Cortez:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Cortez is located in Montezuma County and is the County Seat.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Montezuma County: Apache (AZ), Dolores, La Plata, San Juan, San Juan (NM) & San Juan (UT).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cortez. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Montezuma 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 Cortez (which is Montezuma 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 Cortez
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Montezuma County (where Cortez resides)
- County Website: https://montezumacounty.org/
- County Seat for Montezuma: Cortez
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Cortez ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cortez.
- Lebanon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Lebanon is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lebanon
- Arriola
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Arriola is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arriola
- Dolores
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lewis
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Badger House Community ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Stapleton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Stapleton is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stapleton
- Echo House ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Echo House is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo House
- Towaoc
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Millwood
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Millwood is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millwood
- Yellow Jacket
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Swallows Nest ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Swallows Nest is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swallows Nest
- Mancos
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
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- McPhee ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- McPhee is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McPhee
- Weber
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Weber is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weber
- Ackmen ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Ackmen is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ackmen
- Pleasant View
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Mariano
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Mariano is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mariano
- Stoner
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Stoner is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoner
- Golconda
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Golconda is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golconda
- Roundup Junction
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Roundup Junction is located in Montezuma County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roundup Junction
- Dolores County
- La Plata County
- County Website: https://www.lpcgov.org/
- County Seat for La Plata: Durango
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Cortez ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cortez.
- Mayday ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Mayday is located in La Plata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayday
- La Plata ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- La Plata is located in La Plata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Plata
- Kline
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Kline is located in La Plata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kline
- Redmesa
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Redmesa is located in La Plata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redmesa
- Breen
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Breen is located in La Plata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breen
- Hesperus
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Marvel
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Fort Lewis ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Fort Lewis is located in La Plata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Lewis
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cortez) 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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