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Nearest Communities to Stapleton,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.

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

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

Stapleton is located in Montezuma County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Montezuma County: Apache (AZ), Dolores, La Plata, San Juan, San Juan (NM) & San Juan (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Stapleton. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Montezuma 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 Stapleton (which is Montezuma 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 Stapleton

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

  • Montezuma County   (where Stapleton resides)
    • County Website:   https://montezumacounty.org/
    • County Seat for Montezuma:   Cortez
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Stapleton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Stapleton.
      • Dolores
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Millwood
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Millwood is located in Montezuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millwood
      • Stoner
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Stoner is located in Montezuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoner
      • McPhee ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • McPhee is located in Montezuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McPhee
      • Lebanon
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Lebanon is located in Montezuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lebanon
      • Mancos
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Mancos is located in Montezuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mancos
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,398 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mancos <3>
      • Roundup Junction
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Roundup Junction is located in Montezuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roundup Junction
      • Cortez
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Cortez is located in Montezuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cortez
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,734 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cortez <3>
      • Arriola
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Arriola is located in Montezuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arriola
      • Golconda
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Golconda is located in Montezuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golconda
      • Weber
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Weber is located in Montezuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weber
      • Lewis
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Yellow Jacket
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Ackmen ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Ackmen is located in Montezuma County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ackmen
        • Pleasant View
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Badger House Community ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Echo House ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Echo House is located in Montezuma County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo House
        • Swallows Nest ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Swallows Nest is located in Montezuma County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swallows Nest
        • Towaoc
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Dolores County
  • La Plata County
    • County Website:   https://www.lpcgov.org/
    • County Seat for La Plata:   Durango
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Stapleton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Stapleton.
      • La Plata ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • La Plata is located in La Plata County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Plata
      • Mayday ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Mayday is located in La Plata County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayday
      • Hesperus
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Fort Lewis ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Fort Lewis is located in La Plata County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Lewis
      • Breen
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Breen is located in La Plata County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breen
      • Kline
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Kline is located in La Plata County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kline
      • Marvel
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Redmesa
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Redmesa is located in La Plata County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redmesa

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Stapleton) 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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