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Nearest Communities to Oak Creek,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Oak Creek is located in Routt County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Routt County: Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco & Carbon (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oak Creek. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Routt 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 Oak Creek (which is Routt 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 Oak Creek

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

  • Routt County   (where Oak Creek resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.routt.co.us/
    • County Seat for Routt:   Steamboat Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oak Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oak Creek.
      • Keystone
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Keystone have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
        • Keystone is located in Routt County
      • Haybro
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haybro have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haybro
        • Haybro is located in Routt County
      • Phippsburg
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Yampa
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Sidney
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Trapper
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trapper have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trapper
        • Trapper is located in Routt County
      • Dunckley
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dunckley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunckley
        • Dunckley is located in Routt County
      • McGregor
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McGregor have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGregor
        • McGregor is located in Routt County
      • Milner
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Steamboat II
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Steamboat II have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steamboat II
        • Steamboat II is located in Routt County
      • Steamboat Springs
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Bear River ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bear River have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear River
        • Bear River is located in Routt County
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Toponas
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Mount Harris
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Harris have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Harris
          • Mount Harris is located in Routt County
        • Trull ‑ Historic
          (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Trull. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trull
          • Trull is located in Routt County
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Trull
          • From Oak Creek to Trull
        • Egeria
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Egeria. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egeria
          • Egeria is located in Routt County
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Egeria
          • From Oak Creek to Egeria
        • Mad Creek
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Mystic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mystic have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mystic
          • Mystic is located in Routt County
        • Hayden
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Pagoda
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Elkhead
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkhead have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhead
          • Elkhead is located in Routt County
        • Clark
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Glen Eden
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Eagle County
    • County Website:   www.eagle-county.com/
    • County Seat for Eagle:   Eagle
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oak Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oak Creek.
      • Burns
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Dell
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dell
        • Dell is located in Eagle County
      • McCoy
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCoy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCoy
        • McCoy is located in Eagle County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McCoy <4>
      • Derby Junction
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Derby Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derby Junction
        • Derby Junction is located in Eagle County
      • Copper Spur
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Copper Spur have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper Spur
        • Copper Spur is located in Eagle County
  • Grand County
    • County Website:   www.co.grand.co.us/
    • County Seat for Grand:   Hot Sulphur Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oak Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oak Creek.
      • Azure
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Azure have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Azure
        • Azure is located in Grand County
      • Radium
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Radium have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radium
        • Radium is located in Grand County
  • Jackson County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Oak Creek) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oak Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2760, Longitude: -106.9570    
<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.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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