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Nearest Communities to Offield Place,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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 from Offield Place.<1>

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

Offield Place is located in Moffat County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Moffat County: Rio Blanco, Routt, Daggett (UT), Uintah (UT), Carbon (WY) & Sweetwater (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 9 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Offield Place. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Moffat 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 Offield Place (which is Moffat 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 Offield Place

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

  • Moffat County   (where Offield Place resides)
    • County Website:   https://moffatcounty.colorado.gov/
    • County Seat for Moffat:   Craig
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Offield Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Offield Place.
      • Hiawatha ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
        • Hiawatha is located in Moffat County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hiawatha
      • Sparks
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Sparks is located in Moffat County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparks
      • Powder Wash
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Powder Wash is located in Moffat County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powder Wash
      • Wilson Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Wilson Place is located in Moffat County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilson Place
      • Craig Place
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Craig Place is located in Moffat County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig Place
      • Greystone
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Greystone is located in Moffat County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greystone
  • Sweetwater 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Offield Place) 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.