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Nearest Communities to Ouray,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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 Ouray.<1>

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

Ouray is located in Uintah County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Uintah County: Garfield (CO), Moffat (CO), Rio Blanco (CO), Carbon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Grand & Summit.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ouray. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Uintah 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 Ouray (which is Uintah 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 Ouray

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

  • Uintah County   (where Ouray resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.uintah.ut.us/
    • County Seat for Uintah:   Vernal
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ouray   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ouray.
      • Fort Robidoux ‑ Historic
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fort Robidoux. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Robidoux
        • Fort Robidoux is located in Uintah County
        • Fort Robidoux has also been known as:
        • Antoine Robidoux's Fort
        • Fort Kit Carson
        • William Reed's Post
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Fort Robidoux
        • From Ouray to Fort Robidoux
      • Leota
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leota have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leota
        • Leota is located in Uintah County
      • Squaw Crossing
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Squaw Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squaw Crossing
        • Squaw Crossing is located in Uintah County
      • Randlett
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Fort Duchesne
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Gusher
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Independence ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Red Wash
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Wash have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Wash
        • Red Wash is located in Uintah County
      • Ballard
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Lapoint
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lapoint have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lapoint
        • Lapoint is located in Uintah County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lapoint <5>
      • Bennett
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bennett. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
        • Bennett is located in Uintah County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Bennett
        • From Ouray to Bennett
      • Little Bonanza
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Bonanza have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Bonanza
        • Little Bonanza is located in Uintah County
      • Continue List   (14 more) ...
        • Leeton
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leeton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leeton
          • Leeton is located in Uintah County
        • Fairbanks Crossing
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairbanks Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairbanks Crossing
          • Fairbanks Crossing is located in Uintah County
        • Santio Crossing
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santio Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santio Crossing
          • Santio Crossing is located in Uintah County
        • Naples
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Tridell
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Vernal
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Jensen
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Bonanza
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Ignatio ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ignatio. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ignatio
          • Ignatio is located in Uintah County
          • Ignatio has also been known as:
          • Ignacio
          • White River Station
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Ignatio
          • From Ouray to Ignatio
        • Maeser
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Hayden
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Escalante Crossing
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Escalante Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escalante Crossing
          • Escalante Crossing is located in Uintah County
        • Whiterocks
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Watson ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Watson. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watson
          • Watson is located in Uintah County
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Watson
          • From Ouray to Watson
  • Duchesne 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Ouray) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ouray. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0892, Longitude: -109.6772    
<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.




 

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