Nearest Communities to Rulison,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Rulison, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Rulison:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 from Rulison.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Rulison 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 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rulison. Of these communities, 9 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 Rulison (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 Rulison
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Garfield County (where Rulison resides)
- County Website: https://www.garfieldcountyco.gov/
- County Seat for Garfield: Glenwood Springs
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Rulison ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Rulison.
- Anvil Points
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Anvil Points is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anvil Points
- Lacy
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Lacy is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacy
- Battlement Mesa
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Parachute
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- 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>
- Rifle
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Una
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Una is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Una
- Antlers
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Antlers is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antlers
- Silt
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- New Castle
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Chacra
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Chacra is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chacra
- Mesa County
- County Website: https://www.mesacounty.us/
- County Seat for Mesa: Grand Junction
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Rulison ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Rulison.
- Collbran
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Heiberger
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Heiberger is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heiberger
- Plateau City
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Plateau City is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plateau City
- De Beque
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Molina
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Akin
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Akin is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akin
- Mesa
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- John Held Corner
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- John Held Corner is located in Mesa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for John Held Corner
- Rio Blanco County
- County Website: https://www.rbc.us/
- County Seat for Rio Blanco: Meeker
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Rulison ...
- Rio Blanco
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Rio Blanco is located in Rio Blanco County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Blanco
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- Rulison) 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. |