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Nearest Communities to Kirtland,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 Kirtland.<1>

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

Kirtland 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 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Kirtland. Of these communities, 4 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 Kirtland (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 Kirtland

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

  • San Juan County   (where Kirtland resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.sjcounty.net/
    • County Seat for San Juan:   Aztec
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kirtland   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kirtland.
      • Ojo Amarillo
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
        • Ojo Amarillo is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ojo Amarillo
      • Upper Fruitland
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Upper Fruitland is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Fruitland
      • Fruitland
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Nenahnezad
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
        • Nenahnezad is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nenahnezad
      • Farmington
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Cottonwood
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Cottonwood is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
      • Napi HQ
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Napi HQ is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Napi HQ
      • Laplata
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Laplata is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laplata
      • Flora Vista
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • La Plata
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Spencerville
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Spencerville is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencerville
      • Lee Acres
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Lee Acres is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Acres
      • Continue List   (10 more) ...
        • Shiprock
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Aztec
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • 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>
        • Bloomfield
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Huerfano
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Huerfano is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huerfano
        • Cudei
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
          • Cudei is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cudei
        • Rattlesnake
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
          • Rattlesnake is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rattlesnake
        • Inca
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Inca is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inca
        • Little Water
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Little Water is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Water
        • Blanco
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Cedar Hill
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Cedar Hill is located in San Juan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Hill
  • La Plata County
  • Montezuma County

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 from Point A (ie- Kirtland) 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.