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Nearest Communities to Floresta,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.

Keep in mind 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Floresta is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Gunnison County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gunnison County: Chaffee, Delta, Hinsdale, Ouray, Pitkin & Saguache.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Floresta. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Gunnison County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Floresta (which is Gunnison 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 Floresta

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

  • Gunnison County   (where Floresta resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.gunnison.co.us/
    • County Seat for Gunnison:   Gunnison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Floresta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Floresta.
      • Irwin ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
        • Irwin is located in Gunnison County
      • Ruby
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ruby have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby
        • Ruby is located in Gunnison County
      • Crested Butte
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Baldwin ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Baldwin. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baldwin
        • Baldwin is located in Gunnison County
      • Pittsburg ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pittsburg have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg
        • Pittsburg is located in Gunnison County
      • Elkton ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkton
        • Elkton is located in Gunnison County
      • Mount Crested Butte
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Crested Butte have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Crested Butte
        • Mount Crested Butte is located in Gunnison County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 893 people
      • Gothic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gothic
        • Gothic is located in Gunnison County
      • Schofield ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Schofield have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schofield
        • Schofield is located in Gunnison County
      • Crystal ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
        • Crystal is located in Gunnison County
      • Marble
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marble have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marble
        • Marble is located in Gunnison County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 140 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marble <5>
      • Almont
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Almont have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almont
        • Almont is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Almont <5>
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Somerset
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Somerset have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset
          • Somerset is located in Gunnison County
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Somerset <5>
        • Gunnison
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Harry Parker Place
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harry Parker Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harry Parker Place
          • Harry Parker Place is located in Gunnison County
        • Patterson Place
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Patterson Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson Place
          • Patterson Place is located in Gunnison County
        • Hierro
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hierro have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hierro
          • Hierro is located in Gunnison County
        • Iola ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Iola. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iola
          • Iola is located in Gunnison County
        • Sapinero
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sapinero have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sapinero
          • Sapinero is located in Gunnison County
  • Delta County
    • County Website:   www.deltacounty.com/
    • County Seat for Delta:   Delta
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Floresta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Floresta.
      • Juanita Junction
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Juanita Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juanita Junction
        • Juanita Junction is located in Delta County
      • Bowie
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bowie. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowie
        • Bowie is located in Delta County
        • Former names for Bowie:
        • Reading
        • Wauneta
      • Paonia
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Coburn
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coburn have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coburn
        • Coburn is located in Delta County
      • Crawford
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Montrose County
  • Pitkin County
    • County Website:   www.aspenpitkin.com/
    • County Seat for Pitkin:   Aspen
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Floresta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Floresta.
      • Placita
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Placita have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placita
        • Placita is located in Pitkin County
      • Ashcroft ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashcroft
        • Ashcroft is located in Pitkin County
        • Former names for Ashcroft:
        • Castle Forks City
        • Chloride
      • Redstone
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Snowmass Village
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Aspen
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Ruby ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby
        • Ruby is located in Pitkin 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Floresta) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Floresta. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8419, Longitude: -107.1228       In this case, the coordinates for Floresta have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Floresta, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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.




 

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