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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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance 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:   www.co.montrose.co.us/
    • 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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bedrock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bedrock
        • Bedrock is located in Montrose County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bedrock <4>
      • Uravan ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uravan
        • Uravan is located in Montrose County
      • Vancorum
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vancorum
        • Vancorum is located in Montrose County
      • West Vancorum
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for West Vancorum have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Vancorum
        • West Vancorum is located in Montrose County
      • East Vancorum
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for East Vancorum have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Vancorum
        • East Vancorum is located in Montrose County
      • Nucla
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nucla have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nucla
        • Nucla is located in Montrose County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 688 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nucla <4>
      • Naturita
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Mountain View
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain View have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
        • Mountain View is located in Montrose County
  • Mesa County
  • San Miguel County
  • Grand County
    • County Website:   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)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basin
        • Basin is located in Grand County (UT)
      • Castleton ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castleton
        • Castleton is located in Grand County (UT)
      • Wilson's Mesa ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Wilson's Mesa. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilson's Mesa
        • Wilson's Mesa is located in Grand County (UT)
        • Wilson's Mesa has also been known as:
        • Mesa
      • Plainfield ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Plainfield. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainfield
        • Plainfield is located in Grand County (UT)
        • Plainfield has also been known as:
        • Bueno
        • Poverty Flat
        • Poverty Flats
        • Spanish Valley
      • Castle Valley
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castle Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Valley
        • Castle Valley is located in Grand County (UT)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 351 people
  • San Juan County
    • 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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for La Sal have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Sal
        • La Sal is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • 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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for La Sal Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Sal Junction
        • La Sal Junction is located in San Juan County (UT)
      • Spanish Valley
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Valley
        • Spanish Valley is located in San Juan County (UT)

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.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Paradox. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3683, Longitude: -108.9623       In this case, the coordinates for Paradox have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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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