Nearest Communities to Desert,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Desert, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Desert:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Desert is located in Emery County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Emery County: Carbon, Grand, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Uintah & Wayne.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Desert. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Emery 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 Desert (which is Emery 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 Desert
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Emery County (where Desert resides)
- County Website: www.co.emery.ut.us/
- County Seat for Emery: Castle Dale
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Desert ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Desert.
- Sphinx ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sphinx. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sphinx
- Sphinx is located in Emery County
- Green River
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Woodside ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodside
- Woodside is located in Emery County
- Grassy ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Grassy. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassy
- Grassy is located in Emery County
- Cedar ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar
- Cedar is located in Emery County
- Shanty Town ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Shanty Town. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shanty Town
- Shanty Town is located in Emery County
- Horse Canyon
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Horse Canyon have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horse Canyon
- Horse Canyon is located in Emery County
- Victor ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victor
- Victor is located in Emery County
- Carbon County
- County Website: www.carboncountyutah.com/
- County Seat for Carbon: Price
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Desert ...
- Columbia
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
- Columbia is located in Carbon County
- Grand County
- County Website: www.grandcountyutah.net/
- County Seat for Grand: Moab
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Desert ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Desert.
- Elgin
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
- Elgin is located in Grand County
- Solitude
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Solitude have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solitude
- Solitude is located in Grand County
- Floy
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Floy have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floy
- Floy is located in Grand County
- Brendel
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brendel
- Brendel is located in Grand County
- Crescent Junction
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Junction
- Crescent Junction is located in Grand County
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 from Point A (ie- Desert) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Desert. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0880, Longitude: -110.3188 In this case, the coordinates for Desert have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
<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> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
<4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
<5> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |