Nearest Communities to Monticello,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Monticello, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Monticello:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 from Monticello.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Monticello is located in San Juan County and is the County Seat.
The following 13 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of San Juan County: Apache (AZ), Coconino (AZ), Navajo (AZ), Dolores (CO), Montezuma (CO), Montrose (CO), San Miguel (CO), San Juan (NM), Emery, Garfield, Grand, Kane & Wayne.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Monticello. 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 Monticello (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 Monticello
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- San Juan County (where Monticello resides)
- County Seat for San Juan: Monticello
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Utah
- San Juan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Utah
- San Juan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Utah
- San Juan County
- Nearest Communities to Monticello ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Monticello.
- Carlisle ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the north) - Verdure ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verdure
- Verdure is located in San Juan County
- Eastland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east) - Home of Truth ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home of Truth
- Home of Truth is located in San Juan County
- Lockerby ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east) - Ucolo
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ucolo
- Ucolo is located in San Juan County
- Blanding
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blanding
- Blanding is located in San Juan County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,556 people
- Former names for Blanding:
- Grayson
- White Mesa
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Blanding <5>
- Indian Village
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Village have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
- Indian Village is located in San Juan County
- White Mesa
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Mesa
- White Mesa is located in San Juan County
- La Sal Junction
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for La Sal Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Sal Junction
- La Sal Junction is located in San Juan County
- La Sal
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Sal
- La Sal is located in San Juan County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for La Sal <5>
- Dolores County
- County Seat for Dolores: Dove Creek (CO)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- Dolores County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- Dolores County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- Dolores County
- Nearest Communities to Monticello ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Monticello.
- Northdale
(18 miles [29 km] to the east) - Dove Creek
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dove Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dove Creek
- Dove Creek is located in Dolores County (CO)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 715 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dove Creek <5>
- San Miguel County
- County Website: www.sanmiguelcounty.org/
- County Seat for San Miguel: Telluride (CO)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Colorado
- San Miguel County
- From Family Search:
- State of Colorado
- San Miguel County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Colorado
- San Miguel County
- Nearest Communities to Monticello ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Monticello.
- Egnar
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egnar
- Egnar is located in San Miguel County (CO)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Egnar <5>
- Slick Rock
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slick Rock
- Slick Rock is located in San Miguel County (CO)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Slick Rock <5>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Monticello) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Monticello. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.8712, Longitude: -109.3429 |
| <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> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |