Nearest Communities to Placita,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Placita, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Placita:
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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Placita is located in Pitkin County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pitkin County: Chaffee, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Lake & Mesa.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 47 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Placita. Of these communities, 38 are located in counties other than Pitkin 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 Placita (which is Pitkin 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 Placita
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Pitkin County (where Placita resides)
- County Website: https://www.pitkincounty.com/
- County Seat for Pitkin: Aspen
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Placita ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Placita.
- Redstone
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Snowmass Village
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Emma
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Emma is located in Pitkin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emma
- Wingo
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Wingo is located in Pitkin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wingo
- Snowmass
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Woody Creek
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Aspen
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Ashcroft ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Ashcroft is located in Pitkin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashcroft
- Former names for Ashcroft:
- Castle Forks City
- Chloride
- Lenado ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Lenado is located in Pitkin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lenado
- Delta County
- County Website: https://www.deltacountyco.gov/
- County Seat for Delta: Delta
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Placita ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Placita.
- Bowie
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bowie is located in Delta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowie
- Former names for Bowie:
- Reading
- Wauneta
- Juanita Junction
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Juanita Junction is located in Delta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juanita Junction
- Paonia
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Coburn
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Coburn is located in Delta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coburn
- Eagle County
- County Website: https://www.eaglecounty.us/
- County Seat for Eagle: Eagle
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Placita ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Placita.
- Hooks
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Hooks is located in Eagle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooks
- Leon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Leon is located in Eagle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leon
- Basalt
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Basalt is located in Eagle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basalt
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,183 people
- Former names for Basalt:
- Aspen Junction
- Fryingpan Town
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Basalt <3>
- El Jebel
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Ruedi ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ruedi is located in Eagle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruedi
- Garfield County
- County Website: https://www.garfieldcountyco.gov/
- County Seat for Garfield: Glenwood Springs
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Placita ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Placita.
- Carbondale
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Catherine
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Catherine is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catherine
- Mulford
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Mulford is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mulford
- Satank
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Satank is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Satank
- Kiggin
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Kiggin is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiggin
- Cattle Creek
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Cattle Creek is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cattle Creek
- Cardiff
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Cardiff is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cardiff
- Glenwood Springs
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Funston
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Funston is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funston
- Grizzly
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Grizzly is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grizzly
- No Name
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- No Name is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for No Name
- Higby
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Higby is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higby
- Gunnison County
- County Website: https://www.gunnisoncounty.org/
- County Seat for Gunnison: Gunnison
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Placita ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Placita.
- Marble
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Patterson Place
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Patterson Place is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson Place
- Crystal ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Crystal is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
- Schofield ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Schofield is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schofield
- Harry Parker Place
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Harry Parker Place is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harry Parker Place
- Elkton ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Elkton is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkton
- Pittsburg ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Pittsburg is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburg
- Gothic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Gothic is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gothic
- Somerset
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Irwin ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Irwin is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
- Ruby
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Ruby is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby
- Floresta ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Floresta is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floresta
- Mount Crested Butte
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Crested Butte is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Crested Butte
- Population from the 2020 Census: 893 people
- Crested Butte
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Baldwin ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Baldwin is located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baldwin
- Mesa County
- County Website: https://www.mesacounty.us/
- County Seat for Mesa: Grand Junction
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Placita ...
- Heiberger
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Heiberger is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heiberger
- Summit County
- County Website: https://www.summitcountyco.gov/
- County Seat for Summit: Breckenridge
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Placita ...
- Parkville ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Parkville is located in Summit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkville
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Placita) 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. |