Nearest Communities to Mosca,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Mosca, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Mosca:
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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Mosca is located in Alamosa County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Alamosa County: Conejos, Costilla, Huerfano, Rio Grande & Saguache.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mosca. Of these communities, 30 are located in counties other than Alamosa 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 Mosca (which is Alamosa 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 Mosca
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Alamosa County (where Mosca resides)
- County Website: https://www.alamosacounty.org/
- County Seat for Alamosa: Alamosa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mosca ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mosca.
- Hooper
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Parma
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Parma is located in Alamosa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parma
- Alamosa East
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Alamosa East is located in Alamosa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamosa East
- Alamosa
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- La Fruto
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- La Fruto is located in Alamosa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Fruto
- Waverly
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Waverly is located in Alamosa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waverly
- Hartner
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Hartner is located in Alamosa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartner
- Henry
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Henry is located in Alamosa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry
- Estrella
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Estrella is located in Alamosa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estrella
- Conejos County
- County Website: https://conejoscounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Conejos: Conejos
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mosca ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mosca.
- Morgan
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Morgan is located in Conejos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan
- Richfield
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Richfield is located in Conejos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield
- La Jara
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Sanford
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Lasauses
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Lasauses is located in Conejos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lasauses
- Capulin
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bountiful
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Bountiful is located in Conejos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bountiful
- Centro
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Centro is located in Conejos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centro
- Costilla County
- County Website: https://www.costillacounty.gov/
- County Seat for Costilla: San Luis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mosca ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mosca.
- Blanca
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Fort Garland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Huerfano County
- County Website: https://huerfano.us/
- County Seat for Huerfano: Walsenburg
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mosca ...
- Sharpsdale
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Sharpsdale is located in Huerfano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharpsdale
- Rio Grande County
- County Website: https://riograndecounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Rio Grande: Del Norte
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mosca ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mosca.
- Dunul
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Dunul is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunul
- Vastine
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Vastine is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vastine
- Homelake
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Zinzer
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Zinzer is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zinzer
- Ansel
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Ansel is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ansel
- Center
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Sugar Junction
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Sugar Junction is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Junction
- Maxeyville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Maxeyville is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxeyville
- Monte Vista
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Torres
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Torres is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torres
- Sevenmile Plaza
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Sevenmile Plaza is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Plaza
- Evansville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Evansville is located in Rio Grande County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evansville
- Del Norte
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Saguache County
- County Website: https://saguachecounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Saguache: Saguache
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mosca ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mosca.
- Duncan ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Duncan is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duncan
- Liberty ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Liberty is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
- Cottonwood
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Cottonwood is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
- Moffat
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- La Garita
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- La Garita is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Garita
- Crestone
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
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- Mosca) 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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