Nearest Communities to La Garita,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to La Garita, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for La Garita:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.
La Garita is located in Saguache County.
The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Saguache County: Alamosa, Chaffee, Custer, Fremont, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Huerfano, Mineral & Rio Grande.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of La Garita. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Saguache 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 La Garita (which is Saguache 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 La Garita
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Saguache County (where La Garita resides)
- County Website: https://saguachecounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Saguache: Saguache
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to La Garita ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from La Garita.
- Saguache
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Moffat
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Bonita
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Bonita is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonita
- Parkville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Parkville is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkville
- Spook City
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Spook City is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spook City
- Mirage ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Mirage is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirage
- Mineral Hot Springs
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Mineral Hot Springs is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Hot Springs
- Sedgewick ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Sedgewick is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sedgewick
- Alamosa County
- County Website: https://www.alamosacounty.org/
- County Seat for Alamosa: Alamosa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to La Garita ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from La Garita.
- Hooper
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Parma
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Parma is located in Alamosa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parma
- Mosca
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Rio Grande County
- County Website: https://riograndecounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Rio Grande: Del Norte
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to La Garita ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from La Garita.
- Center
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Evansville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Evansville is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evansville
- Ansel
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Ansel is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ansel
- Del Norte
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Sevenmile Plaza
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Sevenmile Plaza is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Plaza
- Dunul
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Dunul is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunul
- Maxeyville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Maxeyville is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxeyville
- Torres
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Torres is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torres
- Vastine
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Vastine is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vastine
- Hanna
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hanna is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanna
- Monte Vista
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Agua Ramon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Agua Ramon is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agua Ramon
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- Sugar Junction
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Sugar Junction is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Junction
- Homelake
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Zinzer
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Zinzer is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zinzer
- Alpine
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Alpine is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine
- Gerrard
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Gerrard is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerrard
- South Fork
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Baxterville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Baxterville is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxterville
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- La Garita) 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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