Nearest Communities to Willow Creek,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Willow Creek, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Willow Creek:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
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 south 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 Willow Creek.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Willow Creek is located in Rio Arriba County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Rio Arriba County: Archuleta (CO), Conejos (CO), Los Alamos, Mora, San Juan, Sandoval, Santa Fe & Taos.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Willow Creek. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Rio Arriba 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 Willow Creek (which is Rio Arriba 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 Willow Creek
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Rio Arriba County (where Willow Creek resides)
- County Website: https://www.rio-arriba.org/
- County Seat for Rio Arriba: Tierra Amarilla
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow Creek.
- Chama
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Lobato ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Lobato is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lobato
- Biggs ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Biggs is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biggs
- Diamante ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Diamante is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamante
- Brazos
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Brazos is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brazos
- Los Ojos
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Monero
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Monero is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monero
- Rutheron
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Rutheron is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rutheron
- Ensenada
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Ensenada is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ensenada
- La Puente ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- La Puente is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Puente
- Amargo
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Amargo is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amargo
- Tierra Amarilla ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Tierra Amarilla is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tierra Amarilla
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Lumberton
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Lumberton is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lumberton
- Dulce
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- El Vado
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- El Vado is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Vado
- Crowther Cow Camp
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Crowther Cow Camp is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crowther Cow Camp
- Toltec
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Toltec is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toltec
- Las Nutrias
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Las Nutrias is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Nutrias
- Navajo
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Navajo is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo
- Sublette
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Sublette is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublette
- Cebolla
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Big Horn
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Big Horn is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Horn
- Wright Place
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Wright Place is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright Place
- San Antonio ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- San Antonio is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Antonio
- San Miguel
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- San Miguel is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Miguel
- Pounds ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Pounds is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pounds
- Alire ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Alire is located in Rio Arriba County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alire
- Canjilon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Archuleta County
- County Website: https://www.archuletacounty.gov/
- County Seat for Archuleta: Pagosa Springs (CO)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow Creek.
- Tierra Amarilla Grant
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Tierra Amarilla Grant is located in Archuleta County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tierra Amarilla Grant
- Chromo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Edith
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Edith is located in Archuleta County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edith
- Trujillo
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Trujillo is located in Archuleta County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trujillo
- Juanita ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Juanita is located in Archuleta County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juanita
- Conejos County
- County Website: https://conejoscounty.colorado.gov/
- County Seat for Conejos: Conejos (CO)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willow Creek ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willow Creek.
- Cumbres
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Cumbres is located in Conejos County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumbres
- Osier
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Osier is located in Conejos County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osier
- Three Forks
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Three Forks is located in Conejos County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Forks
- Fox Creek
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Fox Creek is located in Conejos County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Creek
- Canon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Canon is located in Conejos County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canon
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Willow Creek) 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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