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Nearest Communities to Keystone,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Keystone.<1>

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

Keystone 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 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Keystone. Of these communities, 6 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 Keystone (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 Keystone

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

  • Routt County   (where Keystone resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.routt.co.us/
    • County Seat for Routt:   Steamboat Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Keystone   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Keystone.
      • Oak Creek
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Haybro
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
        • Haybro is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haybro
      • Phippsburg
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Sidney
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Sidney is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
      • Yampa
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • McGregor
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • McGregor is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGregor
      • Dunckley
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Dunckley is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunckley
      • Milner
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Milner is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milner
      • Steamboat II
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Steamboat II is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steamboat II
      • Steamboat Springs
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Trapper
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Trapper is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trapper
      • Bear River ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Bear River is located in Routt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear River
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Mount Harris
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Mount Harris is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Harris
        • Trull ‑ Historic
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
          • Trull is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trull
        • Mad Creek
          (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
          • Mad Creek is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mad Creek
        • Mystic
          (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
          • Mystic is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mystic
        • Toponas
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Hayden
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Egeria
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Egeria is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egeria
        • Pagoda
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
          • Pagoda is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pagoda
        • Elkhead
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Elkhead is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhead
        • Clark
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Glen Eden
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Glen Eden is located in Routt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Eden
  • Eagle County
  • Jackson 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- Keystone) 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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