Nearest Communities to Nelson,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Nelson, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Nelson:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Please note 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.
Nelson is located in Morgan County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Morgan County: Adams, Logan, Washington & Weld.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 42 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Nelson. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Morgan 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 Nelson (which is Morgan 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 Nelson
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Morgan County (where Nelson resides)
- County Website: https://morgancounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Morgan: Fort Morgan
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Nelson ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Nelson.
- Brush
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Lodi
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Lodi is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodi
- Dodd
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Dodd is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodd
- Moseley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Moseley is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moseley
- Hurley
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Hurley is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurley
- Camden
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Camden is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camden
- Snyder
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Fort Morgan
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Hillrose
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Log Lane Village
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Log Lane Village is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Log Lane Village
- Population from the 2020 Census: 848 people
- Lamb
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Lamb is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamb
- Cooper
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Cooper is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooper
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- Union
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Union is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Ninemile Corner
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Ninemile Corner is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ninemile Corner
- Bijou
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Bijou is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bijou
- Gary
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Gary is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gary
- Balzac
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Balzac is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balzac
- Twelvemile Corner
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Twelvemile Corner is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twelvemile Corner
- Griffin
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Griffin is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griffin
- Weldona
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Adena
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Adena is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adena
- Wiggins
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Goodrich
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Goodrich is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodrich
- Orchard
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Hoyt
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Hoyt is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoyt
- Adams County
- County Website: https://adcogov.org/
- County Seat for Adams: Brighton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Nelson ...
- Shamrock
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Shamrock is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shamrock
- Logan County
- County Website: https://logancounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Logan: Sterling
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Nelson ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Nelson.
- Beta
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Beta is located in Logan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beta
- Merino
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Willard ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Willard is located in Logan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willard
- Logan
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Logan is located in Logan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
- Atwood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Washington County
- County Website: https://washingtoncounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Washington: Akron
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Nelson ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Nelson.
- Pinneo ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Pinneo is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinneo
- Midway ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Midway is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Messex
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Messex is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Messex
- Xenia ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Xenia is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Xenia
- Xenia has also been known as:
- Cody
- Woodrow
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Rago ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Rago is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rago
- Akron
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Curtis ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Curtis is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curtis
- Weld County
- County Website: https://www.weld.gov/
- County Seat for Weld: Greeley
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Nelson ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Nelson.
- Stoneham
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Raymer
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Raymer is located in Weld County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymer
- Population from the 2020 Census: 120 people
- Raymer has also been known as:
- New Raymer
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Raymer <3>
- Buckingham ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Buckingham is located in Weld County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckingham
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- Nelson) 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. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |