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Nearest Communities to Rio Blanco,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Rio Blanco.<1>

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

Rio Blanco 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 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rio Blanco. Of these communities, 11 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 Rio Blanco (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 Rio Blanco

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

  • Rio Blanco County   (where Rio Blanco resides)
  • Garfield County
    • County Website:   https://www.garfieldcountyco.gov/
    • County Seat for Garfield:   Glenwood Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rio Blanco   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rio Blanco.
      • Anvil Points
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Anvil Points is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anvil Points
      • Lacy
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Lacy is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacy
      • Rulison
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Rulison is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rulison
      • Rifle
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Rifle is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rifle
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,775 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rifle <3>
      • Antlers
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Antlers is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antlers
      • Battlement Mesa
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Parachute
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Parachute is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parachute
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,114 people
        • Former name for Parachute:
        • Grand Valley
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Parachute <3>
      • Silt
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Silt is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silt
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,109 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Silt <3>
      • Una
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Una is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Una
      • New Castle
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Chacra
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Chacra is located in Garfield County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chacra

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Rio Blanco) 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.