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Nearest Communities to Rush,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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

Rush is located in El Paso County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of El Paso County: Crowley, Douglas, Elbert, Fremont, Lincoln, Pueblo & Teller.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rush. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than El Paso 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 Rush (which is El Paso 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 Rush

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

  • El Paso County   (where Rush resides)
  • Elbert County
    • County Website:   www.elbertcounty-co.gov/
    • County Seat for Elbert:   Kiowa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rush   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rush.
      • Kutch
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kutch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kutch
        • Kutch is located in Elbert County
      • Beck Sand Draw Crossing
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beck Sand Draw Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beck Sand Draw Crossing
        • Beck Sand Draw Crossing is located in Elbert County
      • Simla
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Matheson
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Matheson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matheson
        • Matheson is located in Elbert County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Matheson <4>
      • Fondis
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Lincoln County
    • County Seat for Lincoln:   Hugo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rush   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rush.
      • Punkin Center
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Punkin Center have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Punkin Center
        • Punkin Center is located in Lincoln County
      • Forder
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forder have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forder
        • Forder is located in Lincoln County
      • Karval
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rush) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rush. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8401, Longitude: -104.0921    
<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.




 

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