Nearest Communities to Cottonwood,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Cottonwood, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Cottonwood:
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 Cottonwood.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Cottonwood is located in San Juan County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of San Juan County: Apache (AZ), Archuleta (CO), La Plata (CO), Montezuma (CO), McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval & San Juan (UT).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cottonwood. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than San Juan 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 Cottonwood (which is San Juan 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 Cottonwood
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- San Juan County (where Cottonwood resides)
- County Website: https://www.sjcounty.net/
- County Seat for San Juan: Aztec
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Cottonwood ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cottonwood.
- Fruitland
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Kirtland
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Nenahnezad
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Nenahnezad is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nenahnezad
- La Plata
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Laplata
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Laplata is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laplata
- Upper Fruitland
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Upper Fruitland is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Fruitland
- Ojo Amarillo
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Ojo Amarillo is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ojo Amarillo
- Farmington
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Shiprock
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Flora Vista
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Spencerville
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Spencerville is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencerville
- Napi HQ
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Napi HQ is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Napi HQ
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- Cudei
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Cudei is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cudei
- Aztec
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Lee Acres
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Lee Acres is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Acres
- Rattlesnake
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Rattlesnake is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rattlesnake
- Inca
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Inca is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inca
- Bloomfield
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Cedar Hill
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Cedar Hill is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Hill
- Riverside
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Riverside is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- La Plata County
- County Website: https://www.lpcgov.org/
- County Seat for La Plata: Durango (CO)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Cottonwood ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cottonwood.
- Redmesa
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Redmesa is located in La Plata County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redmesa
- Marvel
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Kline
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Kline is located in La Plata County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kline
- Breen
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Breen is located in La Plata County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breen
- Bondad
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Bondad is located in La Plata County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bondad
- Montezuma County
- County Website: https://montezumacounty.org/
- County Seat for Montezuma: Cortez (CO)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Cottonwood ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cottonwood.
- Swallows Nest ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Swallows Nest is located in Montezuma County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swallows Nest
- Echo House ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Echo House is located in Montezuma County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo House
- Badger House Community ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Badger House Community is located in Montezuma County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badger House Community
- Towaoc
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Weber
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Weber is located in Montezuma County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weber
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Cottonwood) 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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