Nearest Communities to Loyd,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Loyd, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Loyd:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Loyd.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Loyd is located in Moffat County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Moffat County: Rio Blanco, Routt, Daggett (UT), Uintah (UT), Carbon (WY) & Sweetwater (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 16 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Loyd. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Moffat 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 Loyd (which is Moffat 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 Loyd
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Moffat County (where Loyd resides)
- County Website: www.co.moffat.co.us/
- County Seat for Moffat: Craig
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- Nearest Communities to Loyd ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Loyd.
- Iles Grove
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iles Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iles Grove
- Iles Grove is located in Moffat County
- Axial
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west) - Hamilton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hamilton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton
- Hamilton is located in Moffat County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hamilton <4>
- Craig South Highlands
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Craig South Highlands have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig South Highlands
- Craig South Highlands is located in Moffat County
- Craig
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig
- Craig is located in Moffat County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,953 people
- Former names for Craig:
- Rosedale
- Yampa
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Craig <4>
- Juniper Hot Springs
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Juniper Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniper Hot Springs
- Juniper Hot Springs is located in Moffat County
- Lay
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest) - Price Creek
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Price Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Price Creek
- Price Creek is located in Moffat County
- Maybell
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Maybell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maybell
- Maybell is located in Moffat County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Maybell <4>
- Sunbeam
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Rio Blanco County
- County Website: www.co.rio-blanco.co.us/
- County Seat for Rio Blanco: Meeker
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Blanco County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Blanco County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Blanco County
- Nearest Communities to Loyd ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Loyd.
- Thornburgh
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Thornburgh have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornburgh
- Thornburgh is located in Rio Blanco County
- Meeker
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meeker
- Meeker is located in Rio Blanco County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,318 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Meeker <4>
- Buford
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Routt County
- County Website: www.co.routt.co.us/
- County Seat for Routt: Steamboat Springs
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Routt County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Routt County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Routt County
- Nearest Communities to Loyd ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Loyd.
- Pagoda
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pagoda
- Pagoda is located in Routt County
- Dunckley
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east) - Hayden
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayden
- Hayden is located in Routt County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,977 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hayden <4>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Loyd) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Loyd. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3036, Longitude: -107.7048 In this case, the coordinates for Loyd have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |