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Nearest Communities to Powderhorn,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

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

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

Powderhorn is located in Gunnison County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gunnison County: Chaffee, Delta, Hinsdale, Ouray, Pitkin & Saguache.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Powderhorn. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Gunnison 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 Powderhorn (which is Gunnison 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 Powderhorn

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

  • Gunnison County   (where Powderhorn resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.gunnison.co.us/
    • County Seat for Gunnison:   Gunnison
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Powderhorn   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Powderhorn.
      • Spencer
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spencer have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer
        • Spencer is located in Gunnison County
      • Midway ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Midway have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
        • Midway is located in Gunnison County
      • Smith Place
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Smith Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Place
        • Smith Place is located in Gunnison County
      • Vulcan ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vulcan have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulcan
        • Vulcan is located in Gunnison County
      • Gateview
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gateview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gateview
        • Gateview is located in Gunnison County
      • Iola ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Iola. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iola
        • Iola is located in Gunnison County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Iola
        • From Powderhorn to Iola
      • Hierro
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hierro have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hierro
        • Hierro is located in Gunnison County
      • Sapinero
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sapinero have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sapinero
        • Sapinero is located in Gunnison County
      • Chance
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chance have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chance
        • Chance is located in Gunnison County
      • Gunnison
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Sillsville
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sillsville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sillsville
        • Sillsville is located in Gunnison County
      • Parlin
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Doyleville
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Doyleville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyleville
        • Doyleville is located in Gunnison County
      • Almont
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Almont have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almont
        • Almont is located in Gunnison County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Almont <5>
  • Hinsdale County
  • Mineral County
    • County Seat for Mineral:   Creede
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Powderhorn   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Powderhorn.
      • Bachelor City ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bachelor City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bachelor City
        • Bachelor City is located in Mineral County
      • Weaver ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weaver have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weaver
        • Weaver is located in Mineral County
      • North Creede
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Creede have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Creede
        • North Creede is located in Mineral County
      • Creede
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Sunnyside
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunnyside have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
        • Sunnyside is located in Mineral County
  • Montrose County
  • Saguache County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Powderhorn) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Powderhorn. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.2771, Longitude: -107.0958       In this case, the coordinates for Powderhorn 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>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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