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Nearest Communities to Huerfano,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 starting from Huerfano.<1>

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

Huerfano 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 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Huerfano. Of these communities, 1 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 Huerfano (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 Huerfano

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

  • San Juan County   (where Huerfano resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.sjcounty.net/
    • County Seat for San Juan:   Aztec
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Huerfano   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Huerfano.
      • Lee Acres
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Lee Acres is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Acres
      • Napi HQ
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Napi HQ is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Napi HQ
      • Bloomfield
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Blanco
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Farmington
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Flora Vista
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Fivemile Crossing
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Fivemile Crossing is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile Crossing
      • Aztec
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Aztec is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aztec
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,332 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Aztec <3>
      • Spencerville
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Spencerville is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencerville
      • Upper Fruitland
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Upper Fruitland is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Fruitland
      • Alcatraz ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Alcatraz is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alcatraz
      • Turley
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Turley is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turley
      • Continue List   (14 more) ...
        • Ojo Amarillo
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Ojo Amarillo is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ojo Amarillo
        • Kirtland
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Fruitland
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Nageezi
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Inca
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Inca is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inca
        • Archuleta
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Archuleta is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Archuleta
        • Nenahnezad
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Nenahnezad is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nenahnezad
        • Kimbeto
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Kimbeto is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimbeto
        • Laplata
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Laplata is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laplata
        • Tsaya
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Tsaya is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tsaya
        • Cedar Hill
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Cedar Hill is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Hill
        • La Plata
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Navajo Dam
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Lake Valley
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Lake Valley is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Valley
  • Rio Arriba County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Huerfano) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.