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Nearest Communities to Monarch,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Monarch is located in Chaffee County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chaffee County: Fremont, Gunnison, Lake, Park, Pitkin & Saguache.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 59 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Monarch. Of these communities, 30 are located in counties other than Chaffee 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 Monarch (which is Chaffee 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 Monarch

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

  • Chaffee County   (where Monarch resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.chaffeecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Chaffee:   Salida
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Monarch   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Monarch.
      • Garfield ‑ Historic
        (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
        • Garfield is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield
      • Shavano ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Shavano is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shavano
      • Maysville ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Stonewall
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Stonewall is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonewall
      • Hancock ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Romley ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Romley is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romley
      • Alpine ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Alpine is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine
      • Iron City ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Iron City is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron City
      • Saint Elmo ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Mears Junction
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Shirley ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Shirley is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
      • Poncha Springs
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (17 more) ...
        • Belleview
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Browns Canon
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Smeltertown
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
          • Smeltertown is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smeltertown
        • Centerville
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Centerville is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
        • Salida
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Swan ‑ Historic
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Swan is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swan
        • Cleora
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Turret ‑ Historic
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Nathrop
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Johnson Village
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Buena Vista
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Futurity
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Futurity is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Futurity
        • Americus
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Americus is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Americus
        • Hamilton ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Hamilton is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton
        • Riverside
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Riverside is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
        • Newett
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Newett is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newett
        • Pine Creek
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Fremont County
  • Gunnison County
  • Saguache County
    • County Website:   https://saguachecounty.colorado.gov/
    • County Seat for Saguache:   Saguache
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Monarch   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Monarch.
      • Sargents
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Chester
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Chester is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester
      • Alder ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Alder is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alder
      • Bonanza
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Kerper City
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Kerper City is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerper City
      • Sedgewick ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Sedgewick is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sedgewick
      • Bonita
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Bonita is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonita
      • Spook City
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Spook City is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spook City
      • Parkville
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Parkville is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkville
      • Villa Grove
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Iris
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Iris is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iris

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 from Point A (ie- Monarch) 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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