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Nearest Communities to Elkhead,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Elkhead.<1>

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

Elkhead is located in Routt County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Routt County: Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco & Carbon (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Elkhead. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Routt 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 Elkhead (which is Routt 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 Elkhead

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

  • Routt County   (where Elkhead resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.routt.co.us/
    • County Seat for Routt:   Steamboat Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elkhead   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elkhead.
      • Hayden
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Mount Harris
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Mount Harris is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Harris
      • Bear River ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Bear River is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear River
      • Mystic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Mystic is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mystic
      • McGregor
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • McGregor is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGregor
      • Milner
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Milner is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milner
      • Clark
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Glen Eden
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Glen Eden is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Eden
      • Trull ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Trull is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trull
      • Mad Creek
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Mad Creek is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mad Creek
      • Hahns Peak
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Hahns Peak is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hahns Peak
      • Steamboat II
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Steamboat II is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steamboat II
      • Continue List   (10 more) ...
        • Columbine
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Columbine is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbine
        • Steamboat Springs
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Battle Creek
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Battle Creek is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battle Creek
        • Dunckley
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Dunckley is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunckley
        • Pagoda
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Pagoda is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pagoda
        • Haybro
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Haybro is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haybro
        • Sidney
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Sidney is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
        • Slavonia
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Slavonia is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slavonia
        • Keystone
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Keystone is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
        • Oak Creek
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Moffat County
  • Carbon 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- Elkhead) 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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