Nearest Communities to Vista,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Vista, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Vista:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 Vista.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Vista is located in 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 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Vista. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Grand 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 Vista (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 Vista
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Grand County (where Vista resides)
- County Website: https://www.grandcountyutah.net/
- County Seat for Grand: Moab
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vista ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vista.
- Thompson Springs
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Sagers
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Sagers is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sagers
- Sego ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Sego is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sego
- Former names for Sego:
- Ballard
- Neslin
- Brendel
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Brendel is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brendel
- Crescent Junction
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Crescent Junction is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Junction
- Elba
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Elba is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elba
- Valley City ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Valley City is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley City
- Floy
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Floy is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floy
- Solitude
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Solitude is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solitude
- Cisco ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Dewey ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Dewey is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewey
- Agate ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Agate is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agate
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Richardson ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Richardson is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardson
- Elgin
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Elgin is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
- Cottonwood
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Cottonwood is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
- Moab
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Moab is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moab
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,373 people
- Former names for Moab:
- Grand Valley
- Mormon Fort
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moab <3>
- Castle Valley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Castle Valley is located in Grand County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Valley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 351 people
- Emery County
- County Website: https://emery.utah.gov/
- County Seat for Emery: Castle Dale
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vista ...
- Green River
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
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- Vista) 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. |