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Nearest Communities to Dewey,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Dewey is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Grand County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Grand County: Garfield (CO), Mesa (CO), Carbon, Emery, San Juan & Uintah.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Dewey. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Grand County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Dewey (which is Grand 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 Dewey

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

  • Grand County   (where Dewey resides)
    • County Website:   www.grandcountyutah.net/
    • County Seat for Grand:   Moab
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dewey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Dewey.
      • Richardson ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Richardson. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardson
        • Richardson is located in Grand County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Richardson
        • From Dewey to Richardson
      • Cisco ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Castle Valley
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castle Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Valley
        • Castle Valley is located in Grand County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 351 people
      • Agate ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Elba
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elba have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elba
        • Elba is located in Grand County
      • Castleton ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Cottonwood
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cottonwood have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
        • Cottonwood is located in Grand County
      • Sagers
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sagers have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sagers
        • Sagers is located in Grand County
      • Basin ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Wilson's Mesa ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Wilson's Mesa. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilson's Mesa
        • Wilson's Mesa is located in Grand County
        • Wilson's Mesa has also been known as:
        • Mesa
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Wilson's Mesa
        • From Dewey to Wilson's Mesa
      • Westwater ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Westwater. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westwater
        • Westwater is located in Grand County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Westwater
        • From Dewey to Westwater
      • Moab
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Vista
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vista have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista
          • Vista is located in Grand County
        • Plainfield ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Plainfield. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainfield
          • Plainfield is located in Grand County
          • Plainfield has also been known as:
          • Bueno
          • Poverty Flat
          • Poverty Flats
          • Spanish Valley
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Plainfield
          • From Dewey to Plainfield
        • Thompson Springs
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Sego ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sego. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sego
          • Sego is located in Grand County
          • Former names for Sego:
          • Ballard
          • Neslin
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Sego
          • From Dewey to Sego
        • Valley City ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Valley City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley City
          • Valley City is located in Grand County
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Valley City
          • From Dewey to Valley City
        • Brendel
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Brendel. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brendel
          • Brendel is located in Grand County
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Brendel
          • From Dewey to Brendel
        • Crescent Junction
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • San Juan County
  • Mesa 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- Dewey) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dewey. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8139, Longitude: -109.2968       In this case, the coordinates for Dewey have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Dewey, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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.




 

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