Nearest Communities to Sillsville,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sillsville, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sillsville:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 from Sillsville.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sillsville is located in Gunnison County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gunnison County: Chaffee, Delta, Hinsdale, Ouray, Pitkin & Saguache.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sillsville. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Gunnison 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 Sillsville (which is Gunnison 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 Sillsville
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Gunnison County (where Sillsville resides)
- County Website: https://www.gunnisoncounty.org/
- County Seat for Gunnison: Gunnison
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sillsville ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sillsville.
- Parlin
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Chance
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Chance is also located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chance
- Doyleville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Doyleville is also located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyleville
- Ohio City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Gunnison
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Bowerman ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Bowerman was located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowerman
- Bowerman has also been known as:
- Camp Bowerman
- Nugget City
- Waunita Hot Springs ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Waunita Hot Springs was located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waunita Hot Springs
- Vulcan ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Vulcan was located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulcan
- Hierro
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Hierro is also located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hierro
- Almont
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Campbelltown
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Campbelltown is also located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campbelltown
- Pitkin
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (11 more) ...
- Midway ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Midway was located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Iola ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Iola was located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iola
- Whitepine
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Whitepine is also located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitepine
- Whitepine has also been known as:
- White Pine
- Spencer
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Spencer is also located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer
- Powderhorn
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Smith Place
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Smith Place is also located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Place
- Tincup
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Tincup is also located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tincup
- Baldwin ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Baldwin was located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baldwin
- Gateview
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Gateview is also located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gateview
- Abbeyville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Abbeyville is also located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbeyville
- Former name for Abbeyville:
- Hillerton
- Sapinero
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Sapinero is also located in Gunnison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sapinero
- Chaffee County
- County Website: https://www.chaffeecounty.org/
- County Seat for Chaffee: Salida
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sillsville ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sillsville.
- Monarch
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Hancock ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Hancock was located in Chaffee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Stonewall
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Stonewall is located in Chaffee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonewall
- Garfield ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Garfield was located in Chaffee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield
- Romley ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Romley was located in Chaffee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romley
- Shavano ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Shavano was located in Chaffee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shavano
- Saint Elmo ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Saint Elmo was located in Chaffee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Elmo
- Iron City ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Iron City was located in Chaffee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron City
- Hinsdale County
- County Website: https://hinsdalecounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Hinsdale: Lake City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sillsville ...
- Cathedral
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Cathedral is located in Hinsdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cathedral
- Saguache County
- County Website: https://saguachecounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Saguache: Saguache
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sillsville ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sillsville.
- Iris
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Iris is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iris
- Sargents
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Chester
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Chester is located in Saguache County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester
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- Sillsville) 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. |
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