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Nearest Communities to Delta,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast 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 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 Delta.<1>

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

Delta is located in Delta County and is the County Seat.

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

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 51 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Delta. Of these communities, 24 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 Delta (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 Delta

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

  • Delta County   (where Delta resides)
  • Mesa County
    • County Website:   https://www.mesacounty.us/
    • County Seat for Mesa:   Grand Junction
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Delta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Delta.
      • Bridgeport
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Bridgeport is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
      • Mesa Lakes Resort
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Mesa Lakes Resort is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Lakes Resort
      • Mesa Lakes
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Mesa Lakes is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Lakes
      • Kannah
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Kannah is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kannah
      • Whitewater
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • John Held Corner
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • John Held Corner is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for John Held Corner
      • Mesa
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Palisade
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Molina
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Bridges Switch
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Bridges Switch is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridges Switch
      • Mount Lincoln
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Mount Lincoln is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Lincoln
  • Montrose County
    • County Website:   https://www.montrosecounty.net/
    • County Seat for Montrose:   Montrose
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Delta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Delta.
      • Pea Green Corner
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Pea Green Corner is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pea Green Corner
      • Hoovers Corner
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Hoovers Corner is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoovers Corner
      • Olathe
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Frost
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Frost is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost
      • Roe
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Roe is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roe
      • Oak Grove
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Oak Grove is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
      • Montrose
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Fairview
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Fairview is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Lujane
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Lujane is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lujane
      • Cedar Creek
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Cedar Creek is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek
      • Maher
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Vernal
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Uncompahgre
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Delta) 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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