Nearest Communities to Dinosaur,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Dinosaur, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Dinosaur:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Dinosaur.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Dinosaur is located in Moffat County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Moffat County: Rio Blanco, Routt, Daggett (UT), Uintah (UT), Carbon (WY) & Sweetwater (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Dinosaur. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Moffat 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 Dinosaur (which is Moffat 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 Dinosaur
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Moffat County (where Dinosaur resides)
- County Website: www.co.moffat.co.us/
- County Seat for Moffat: Craig
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- Nearest Communities to Dinosaur ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Dinosaur.
- Blue Mountain
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blue Mountain have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Mountain
- Blue Mountain is located in Moffat County
- Robinson Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinson Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Place
- Robinson Place is located in Moffat County
- Jack Springs
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jack Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jack Springs
- Jack Springs is located in Moffat County
- Massadona
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east) - Elk Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Springs
- Elk Springs is located in Moffat County
- Greystone
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Rio Blanco County
- County Website: www.co.rio-blanco.co.us/
- County Seat for Rio Blanco: Meeker
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Blanco County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Blanco County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Blanco County
- Nearest Communities to Dinosaur ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Dinosaur.
- Rangely
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rangely have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rangely
- Rangely is located in Rio Blanco County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,300 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rangely <4>
- Angora
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Uintah County
- County Website: www.co.uintah.ut.us/
- County Seat for Uintah: Vernal (UT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Utah
- Uintah County
- From Family Search:
- State of Utah
- Uintah County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Utah
- Uintah County
- Nearest Communities to Dinosaur ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Dinosaur.
- Red Wash
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west) - Bonanza
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
- Bonanza is located in Uintah County (UT)
- Little Bonanza
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Bonanza have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Bonanza
- Little Bonanza is located in Uintah County (UT)
- Jensen
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jensen
- Jensen is located in Uintah County (UT)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jensen <4>
- Ignatio ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest) - Escalante Crossing
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Escalante Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escalante Crossing
- Escalante Crossing is located in Uintah County (UT)
- Watson ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south) - Naples
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naples
- Naples is located in Uintah County (UT)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,107 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Naples <4>
- Rainbow ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Dinosaur) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dinosaur. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2425, Longitude: -109.0097 |
| <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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |