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Nearest Communities to Salida,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Salida.<1>

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

Salida is located in Chaffee County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chaffee County: Fremont, Gunnison, Lake, Park, Pitkin & Saguache.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 61 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Salida. Of these communities, 34 are located in counties other than Chaffee 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 Salida (which is Chaffee 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 Salida

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

  • Chaffee County   (where Salida resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.chaffeecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Chaffee:   Salida
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Salida   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Salida.
      • Smeltertown
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
        • Smeltertown is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smeltertown
      • Cleora
        (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Belleview
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Poncha Springs
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Browns Canon
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Turret ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Mears Junction
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Swan ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Swan is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swan
      • Shirley ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Shirley is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley
      • Maysville ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Centerville
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Centerville is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
      • Futurity
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Futurity is located in Chaffee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Futurity
      • Continue List   (15 more) ...
        • Nathrop
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Garfield ‑ Historic
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
          • Garfield is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield
        • Shavano ‑ Historic
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
          • Shavano is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shavano
        • Monarch
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Alpine ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Alpine is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine
        • Johnson Village
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Stonewall
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Stonewall is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonewall
        • Buena Vista
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Hancock ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Newett
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Newett is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newett
        • Iron City ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Iron City is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron City
        • Romley ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Romley is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romley
        • Saint Elmo ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Americus
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Americus is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Americus
        • Riverside
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Riverside is located in Chaffee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
  • Fremont County
  • Gunnison County
  • Park County
    • County Website:   https://www.parkcountyco.gov/
    • County Seat for Park:   Fairplay
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Salida   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Salida.
      • Trump ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Trump is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trump
      • Antero Junction ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Antero Junction is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antero Junction
      • Haver ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Haver is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haver
      • Balfour ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Balfour is located in Park County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balfour
      • Guffey
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Saguache County
    • County Website:   https://saguachecounty.colorado.gov/
    • County Seat for Saguache:   Saguache
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Salida   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Salida.
      • Alder ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Alder is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alder
      • Bonanza
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Villa Grove
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Kerper City
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Kerper City is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerper City
      • Sedgewick ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Sedgewick is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sedgewick
      • Chester
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Chester is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester
      • Parkville
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Parkville is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkville
      • Spook City
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Spook City is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spook City
      • Bonita
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Bonita is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonita
      • Sargents
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Mineral Hot Springs
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Mineral Hot Springs is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Hot Springs
      • Mirage ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Mirage is located in Saguache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirage

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- Salida) 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.