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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 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:   https://www.uintah.gov/
    • 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)
        • Little Bonanza is located in Uintah County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Bonanza
      • Bonanza
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Bonanza is located in Uintah County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
      • Escalante Crossing
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Escalante Crossing is located in Uintah County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escalante Crossing
      • Ignatio ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Ignatio is located in Uintah County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ignatio
        • Ignatio has also been known as:
        • Ignacio
        • White River Station
      • Leota
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Leota is located in Uintah County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leota
      • Naples
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Ouray
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Ouray is located in Uintah County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ouray
      • Vernal
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Vernal is located in Uintah County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernal
        • 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)
        • Fort Robidoux is located in Uintah County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Robidoux
        • 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)
        • Watson is located in Uintah County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watson
      • Maeser
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Maeser is located in Uintah County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maeser
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Squaw Crossing
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Squaw Crossing is located in Uintah County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squaw Crossing
        • Rainbow ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Rainbow is located in Uintah County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow
        • 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)
        • Fort Duchesne
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Moffat County
  • Rio Blanco 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- Red Wash) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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.