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Nearest Communities to Rangely,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town 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.


Rangely is located in Rio Blanco County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Rio Blanco County: Garfield, Moffat, Routt & Uintah (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rangely. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Rio Blanco 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 Rangely (which is Rio Blanco 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 Rangely

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

  • Rio Blanco County   (where Rangely resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.rio-blanco.co.us/
    • County Seat for Rio Blanco:   Meeker
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rangely   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rangely.
      • Angora
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Angora have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angora
        • Angora is located in Rio Blanco County
      • White River City
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White River City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River City
        • White River City is located in Rio Blanco County
  • Moffat County
    • County Website:   www.co.moffat.co.us/
    • County Seat for Moffat:   Craig
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rangely   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rangely.
      • Massadona
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Massadona have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Massadona
        • Massadona is located in Moffat County
      • Blue Mountain
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blue Mountain have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Mountain
        • Blue Mountain is located in Moffat County
      • Dinosaur
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jack Springs
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jack Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jack Springs
        • Jack Springs is located in Moffat County
      • Elk Springs
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Springs
        • Elk Springs is located in Moffat County
      • Robinson Place
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinson Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Place
        • Robinson Place is located in Moffat County
  • Uintah County
    • County Website:   www.co.uintah.ut.us/
    • County Seat for Uintah:   Vernal (UT)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rangely   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rangely.
      • Bonanza
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
        • Bonanza is located in Uintah County (UT)
      • Ignatio ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ignatio. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ignatio
        • Ignatio is located in Uintah County (UT)
        • Ignatio has also been known as:
        • Ignacio
        • White River Station
      • Little Bonanza
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Bonanza have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Bonanza
        • Little Bonanza is located in Uintah County (UT)
      • Watson ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Watson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watson
        • Watson is located in Uintah County (UT)
      • Dragon ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dragon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dragon
        • Dragon is located in Uintah County (UT)
        • Former name for Dragon:
        • Dragon Junction
      • Rainbow ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rainbow have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow
        • Rainbow is located in Uintah County (UT)
      • Red Wash
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Wash have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Wash
        • Red Wash is located in Uintah County (UT)

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- Rangely) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rangely. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0932, Longitude: -108.7567       In this case, the coordinates for Rangely 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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