Nearest Communities to Spar City,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Spar City, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Spar City:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Spar City.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Spar City is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Mineral County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mineral County: Archuleta, Hinsdale, Rio Grande & Saguache.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Spar City. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Mineral County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Spar City (which is Mineral 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 Spar City
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Mineral County (where Spar City resides)
- County Seat for Mineral: Creede
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Mineral County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Mineral County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Mineral County
- Nearest Communities to Spar City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Spar City.
- Sunnyside
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north) - Creede
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creede
- Creede is located in Mineral County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 315 people
- Former name for Creede:
- Amethyst
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Creede <5>
- Bachelor City ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bachelor City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bachelor City
- Bachelor City is located in Mineral County
- North Creede
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Creede have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Creede
- North Creede is located in Mineral County
- Weaver ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Archuleta County
- County Website: www.archuletacounty.org/
- County Seat for Archuleta: Pagosa Springs
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Archuleta County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Archuleta County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Archuleta County
- Nearest Communities to Spar City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Spar City.
- Treasure
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south) - Pagosa Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pagosa Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pagosa Springs
- Pagosa Springs is located in Archuleta County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,132 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pagosa Springs <5>
- Hinsdale County
- County Website: www.hinsdalecountycolorado.us/
- County Seat for Hinsdale: Lake City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Hinsdale County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Hinsdale County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Hinsdale County
- Nearest Communities to Spar City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Spar City.
- Old Carson ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Carson
- Old Carson is located in Hinsdale County
- Carson ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson
- Carson is located in Hinsdale County
- Cathedral
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north) - Sherman ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest) - Lake City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake City
- Lake City is located in Hinsdale County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 388 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lake City <5>
- Rio Grande County
- County Website: www.riograndecounty.org/
- County Seat for Rio Grande: Del Norte
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Grande County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Grande County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Rio Grande County
- Nearest Communities to Spar City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Spar City.
- Baxterville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baxterville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxterville
- Baxterville is located in Rio Grande County
- South Fork
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork
- South Fork is located in Rio Grande County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 425 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for South Fork <5>
- Alpine
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east) - Gerrard
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerrard
- Gerrard is located in Rio Grande County
- Agua Ramon
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agua Ramon
- Agua Ramon is located in Rio Grande County
- Hanna
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Summitville ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summitville
- Summitville is located in Rio Grande County
- San Juan County
- County Seat for San Juan: Silverton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- San Juan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- San Juan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- San Juan County
- Nearest Communities to Spar City ...
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Spar City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Spar City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7072, Longitude: -106.9684 In this case, the coordinates for Spar City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Spar City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
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