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Nearest Communities to Cottonwood,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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 from Cottonwood.<1>

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

Cottonwood is located in Saguache County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Saguache County: Alamosa, Chaffee, Custer, Fremont, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Huerfano, Mineral & Rio Grande.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cottonwood. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Saguache 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 Cottonwood (which is Saguache 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 Cottonwood

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

  • Saguache County   (where Cottonwood resides)
    • County Website:   https://saguachecounty.colorado.gov/
    • County Seat for Saguache:   Saguache
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cottonwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cottonwood.
      • Duncan ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Duncan is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duncan
      • Crestone
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Liberty ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Liberty is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
      • Moffat
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Mirage ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Mirage is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirage
      • Mineral Hot Springs
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Mineral Hot Springs is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Hot Springs
      • Villa Grove
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Saguache
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Alamosa County
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   https://www.custercounty-co.gov/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Westcliffe
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cottonwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cottonwood.
      • Tanglewood Acres
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Tanglewood Acres is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanglewood Acres
      • Ula ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Ula is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ula
      • Westcliffe
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Silver Cliff
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Rosita
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Rosita is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosita
      • Querida ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Querida is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Querida
        • Querida has also been known as:
        • Bassick
        • Querida Junction
      • Cold Spring
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Cold Spring is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring
      • McKenzie Junction
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • McKenzie Junction is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKenzie Junction
  • Fremont County
  • Huerfano County
    • County Website:   https://huerfano.us/
    • County Seat for Huerfano:   Walsenburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cottonwood   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cottonwood.
      • Bradford
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Bradford is located in Huerfano County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradford
      • Sharpsdale
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Sharpsdale is located in Huerfano County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharpsdale
      • Red Wing
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Chama
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Chama is located in Huerfano County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chama
      • Malachite
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Malachite is located in Huerfano County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malachite
      • Gardner
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Rio Grande County

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cottonwood) 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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