Nearest Communities to Sunbeam,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sunbeam, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sunbeam:
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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Sunbeam.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sunbeam is located in Moffat County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Moffat County: Rio Blanco, Routt, Daggett (UT), Uintah (UT), Carbon (WY) & Sweetwater (WY).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 11 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sunbeam.
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 Sunbeam (which is Moffat 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 Sunbeam
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Moffat County (where Sunbeam resides)
- County Website: www.co.moffat.co.us/
- County Seat for Moffat: Craig
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Moffat County
- Nearest Communities to Sunbeam ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sunbeam.
- Maybell
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Maybell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maybell
- Maybell is located in Moffat County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Maybell <4>
- Juniper Hot Springs
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Juniper Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniper Hot Springs
- Juniper Hot Springs is located in Moffat County
- Lay
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east) - Elk Springs
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Springs
- Elk Springs is located in Moffat County
- Price Creek
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Price Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Price Creek
- Price Creek is located in Moffat County
- Greystone
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west) - Powder Wash
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Powder Wash have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powder Wash
- Powder Wash is located in Moffat County
- Axial
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast) - Iles Grove
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iles Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iles Grove
- Iles Grove is located in Moffat County
- Loyd
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast) - Jack Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jack Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jack Springs
- Jack Springs is located in Moffat County
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sunbeam) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sunbeam. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5508, Longitude: -108.1959 In this case, the coordinates for Sunbeam have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |