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Nearest Communities to Rifle,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest 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 north.

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 north 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 Rifle.<1>

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

Rifle is located in Garfield County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Garfield County: Eagle, Mesa, Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Routt, Grand (UT) & Uintah (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rifle. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Garfield 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 Rifle (which is Garfield 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 Rifle

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

  • Garfield County   (where Rifle resides)
    • County Website:   www.garfield-county.com/
    • County Seat for Garfield:   Glenwood Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rifle   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rifle.
      • Antlers
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Antlers have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antlers
        • Antlers is located in Garfield County
      • Lacy
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lacy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacy
        • Lacy is located in Garfield County
      • Anvil Points
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Anvil Points have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anvil Points
        • Anvil Points is located in Garfield County
      • Silt
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silt have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silt
        • Silt is located in Garfield County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,109 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Silt <4>
      • Rulison
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rulison have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rulison
        • Rulison is located in Garfield County
      • New Castle
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Battlement Mesa
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Battlement Mesa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battlement Mesa
        • Battlement Mesa is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Battlement Mesa <4>
      • Parachute
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Chacra
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Una
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Una. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Una
        • Una is located in Garfield County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Una
        • From Rifle to Una
      • Funston
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Funston have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funston
        • Funston is located in Garfield County
      • Glenwood Springs
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Cardiff
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cardiff. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cardiff
          • Cardiff is located in Garfield County
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Cardiff
          • From Rifle to Cardiff
        • No Name
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for No Name have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for No Name
          • No Name is located in Garfield County
        • Carbonate ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Carbonate. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbonate
          • Carbonate is located in Garfield County
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Carbonate
          • From Rifle to Carbonate
        • Cattle Creek
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cattle Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cattle Creek
          • Cattle Creek is located in Garfield County
        • Grizzly
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grizzly have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grizzly
          • Grizzly is located in Garfield County
        • Higby
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Higby have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higby
          • Higby is located in Garfield County
        • Kiggin
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kiggin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiggin
          • Kiggin is located in Garfield County
        • Satank
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Satank have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Satank
          • Satank is located in Garfield County
  • Mesa County
    • County Website:   www.co.mesa.co.us/
    • County Seat for Mesa:   Grand Junction
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rifle   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rifle.
      • Heiberger
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heiberger have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heiberger
        • Heiberger is located in Mesa County
      • Collbran
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Collbran have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collbran
        • Collbran is located in Mesa County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 727 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Collbran <4>
      • Plateau City
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plateau City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plateau City
        • Plateau City is located in Mesa County
      • De Beque
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Molina
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Rio Blanco County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rifle) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rifle. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5335, Longitude: -107.7833    
<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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