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Nearest Communities to Red Wash,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 starting from Red Wash.<1>

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

Red Wash 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 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Red Wash. Of these communities, 4 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 Red Wash (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 Red Wash

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

  • Uintah County   (where Red Wash resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.uintah.ut.us/
    • County Seat for Uintah:   Vernal
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Wash   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Wash.
      • Jensen
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Little Bonanza
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • 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
      • Bonanza
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
        • Bonanza is located in Uintah County
      • Escalante Crossing
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • 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
      • Ignatio ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • 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.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ignatio
        • Ignatio is located in Uintah County
        • Ignatio has also been known as:
        • Ignacio
        • White River Station
      • Leota
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • 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
      • Naples
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Ouray
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ouray
        • Ouray is located in Uintah County
      • Vernal
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernal
        • Vernal is located in Uintah County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,468 people
        • Former names for Vernal:
        • Ashley
        • Bench
        • The Bench
        • Hatch
        • Jericho
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vernal <3>
      • Fort Robidoux ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • 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.<5>
        • 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
      • Watson ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Watson have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watson
        • Watson is located in Uintah County
      • Maeser
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maeser
        • Maeser is located in Uintah County
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Squaw Crossing
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • 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
        • Rainbow ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rainbow have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow
          • Rainbow is located in Uintah County
        • Randlett
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Gusher
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Lapoint
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • 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 <3>
        • Fort Duchesne
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Moffat County
    • County Website:   www.co.moffat.co.us/
    • County Seat for Moffat:   Craig (CO)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Wash   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Wash.
      • Dinosaur
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Robinson Place
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinson Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Place
        • Robinson Place is located in Moffat County (CO)
      • Blue Mountain
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blue Mountain have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Mountain
        • Blue Mountain is located in Moffat County (CO)
  • Rio Blanco County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Red Wash) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Red Wash. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1986, Longitude: -109.3093       In this case, the coordinates for Red Wash 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>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.




 

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