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Nearest Communities to La Plata,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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

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

La Plata 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 45 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of La Plata. Of these communities, 21 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 La Plata (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 La Plata

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

  • San Juan County   (where La Plata resides)
  • La Plata County
    • County Website:   https://www.lpcgov.org/
    • County Seat for La Plata:   Durango (CO)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to La Plata   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from La Plata.
      • Redmesa
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Redmesa is located in La Plata County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redmesa
      • Marvel
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Kline
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Kline is located in La Plata County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kline
      • Breen
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Breen is located in La Plata County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breen
      • Bondad
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • La Posta
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • La Posta is located in La Plata County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Posta
      • Fort Lewis ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Hesperus
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Carbon Junction
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Grandview
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Grandview is located in La Plata County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandview
      • Mayday ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Mayday is located in La Plata County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayday
      • Durango
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Falfa
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Falfa is located in La Plata County (CO)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falfa
        • Griffth ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Griffth is located in La Plata County (CO)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griffth
        • Loma Linda
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Loma Linda is located in La Plata County (CO)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma Linda
        • Pinon Acres
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Pinon Acres is located in La Plata County (CO)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinon Acres
  • Montezuma County
    • County Website:   https://montezumacounty.org/
    • County Seat for Montezuma:   Cortez (CO)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to La Plata   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from La Plata.
      • Swallows Nest ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Swallows Nest is located in Montezuma County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swallows Nest
      • Echo House ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Echo House is located in Montezuma County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo House
      • Badger House Community ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Badger House Community is located in Montezuma County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badger House Community
      • Weber
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Weber is located in Montezuma County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weber
      • Mancos
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Mancos is located in Montezuma County (CO)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mancos
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,398 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mancos <3>

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- La Plata) 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.