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Nearest Communities to Gunnison,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 Gunnison.<1>

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

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

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

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Gunnison. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Gunnison 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 Gunnison (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 Gunnison

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

  • Gunnison County   (where Gunnison resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.gunnisoncounty.org/
    • County Seat for Gunnison:   Gunnison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gunnison   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gunnison.
      • Hierro
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Hierro is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hierro
      • Chance
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Chance is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chance
      • Almont
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Iola ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Parlin
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Sillsville
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Sillsville is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sillsville
      • Vulcan ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Vulcan is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulcan
      • Baldwin ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Midway ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Midway is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Spencer
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Spencer is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer
      • Ohio City
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Doyleville
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Doyleville is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyleville
      • Continue List   (19 more) ...
        • Campbelltown
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
          • Campbelltown is located in Gunnison County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campbelltown
        • Powderhorn
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Sapinero
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
          • Sapinero is located in Gunnison County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sapinero
        • Pitkin
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Waunita Hot Springs ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
          • Waunita Hot Springs is located in Gunnison County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waunita Hot Springs
        • Crested Butte
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Floresta ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Floresta is located in Gunnison County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floresta
        • Bowerman ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Ruby
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Ruby is located in Gunnison County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby
        • Gateview
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Gateview is located in Gunnison County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gateview
        • Mount Crested Butte
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Mount Crested Butte is located in Gunnison County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Crested Butte
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 893 people
        • Irwin ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Smith Place
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Smith Place is located in Gunnison County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Place
        • Whitepine
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Gothic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Pittsburg ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Pittsburg is located in Gunnison County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg
        • Abbeyville
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Tincup
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Elkton ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Elkton is located in Gunnison County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkton
  • Saguache County

Footnotes ...

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