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Nearest Communities to Molina,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Molina.<1>

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

Molina is located in Mesa County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mesa County: Delta, Garfield, Gunnison, Montrose, Pitkin & Grand (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 51 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Molina. Of these communities, 25 are located in counties other than Mesa 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 Molina (which is Mesa 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 Molina

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

  • Mesa County   (where Molina resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.mesacounty.us/
    • County Seat for Mesa:   Grand Junction
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Molina   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Molina.
      • Mesa
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Plateau City
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Plateau City is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plateau City
      • John Held Corner
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • John Held Corner is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for John Held Corner
      • Collbran
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Mesa Lakes Resort
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Mesa Lakes Resort is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Lakes Resort
      • Mesa Lakes
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Mesa Lakes is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Lakes
      • Akin
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Akin is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akin
      • De Beque
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Heiberger
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Heiberger is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heiberger
      • Cameo
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Palisade
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Mount Lincoln
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Mount Lincoln is located in Mesa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Lincoln
      • Continue List   (14 more) ...
        • Bridges Switch
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Bridges Switch is located in Mesa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridges Switch
        • Clifton
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Fruitvale
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Highland Park
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
          • Highland Park is located in Mesa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Park
        • Pear Park
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
          • Pear Park is located in Mesa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pear Park
        • Johnsons Corner
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
          • Johnsons Corner is located in Mesa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsons Corner
        • Whitewater
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Kannah
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Kannah is located in Mesa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kannah
        • Grand Junction
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Orchard Mesa
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Orchard Mesa is located in Mesa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard Mesa
        • Bridgeport
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Bridgeport is located in Mesa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
        • Appleton
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Appleton is located in Mesa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Appleton
        • Durham
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Durham is located in Mesa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durham
        • Rosevale
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Rosevale is located in Mesa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosevale
  • Delta County
  • Garfield County

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- Molina) 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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