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Nearest Communities to Paradox,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Paradox.<1>

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

Paradox is located in Montrose County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Montrose County: Delta, Gunnison, Mesa, Ouray, San Miguel & San Juan (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Paradox. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Montrose 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 Paradox (which is Montrose 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 Paradox

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

  • Montrose County   (where Paradox resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.montrosecounty.net/
    • County Seat for Montrose:   Montrose
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Paradox   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Paradox.
      • Bedrock
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Uravan ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Uravan is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uravan
      • Vancorum
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Vancorum is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vancorum
      • West Vancorum
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • West Vancorum is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Vancorum
      • East Vancorum
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • East Vancorum is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Vancorum
      • Nucla
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Naturita
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Mountain View
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Mountain View is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
  • Mesa County
  • San Miguel County
  • Grand County
    • County Website:   https://www.grandcountyutah.net/
    • County Seat for Grand:   Moab (UT)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Paradox   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Paradox.
      • Basin ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Basin is located in Grand County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basin
      • Castleton ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Castleton is located in Grand County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castleton
      • Wilson's Mesa ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Wilson's Mesa is located in Grand County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilson's Mesa
        • Wilson's Mesa has also been known as:
        • Mesa
      • Plainfield ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Plainfield is located in Grand County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainfield
        • Plainfield has also been known as:
        • Bueno
        • Poverty Flat
        • Poverty Flats
        • Spanish Valley
      • Castle Valley
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Castle Valley is located in Grand County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Valley
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 351 people
  • San Juan County
    • County Website:   https://sanjuancountyut.gov/
    • County Seat for San Juan:   Monticello (UT)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Paradox   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Paradox.
      • La Sal ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • La Sal is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Sal
        • Former name for La Sal:
        • Coyote
        • La Sal has also been known as:
        • Old La Sal
      • La Sal
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • La Sal Junction
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • La Sal Junction is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Sal Junction
      • Spanish Valley
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Spanish Valley is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Valley

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Paradox) 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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