Nearest Communities to Colores,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Colores, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Colores:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 east 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Colores is located in Albany County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Albany County: Jackson (CO), Larimer (CO), Carbon, Converse, Laramie & Platte.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Colores. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Albany 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 Colores (which is Albany 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 Colores
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Albany County (where Colores resides)
- County Website: https://www.albanycountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Albany: Laramie
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Colores ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Colores.
- The Buttes
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- The Buttes is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Buttes
- Red Buttes ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Red Buttes is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Buttes
- Hermosa
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Hermosa is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermosa
- Tie Siding
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Sherman ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Sherman is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman
- Sherman has also been known as:
- Old Sherman
- Dale Creek
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Dale Creek is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dale Creek
- Buford
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Hirsig
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Hirsig is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hirsig
- Laramie
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- West Laramie
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- West Laramie is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Laramie
- Harmony
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Harmony is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
- Howell
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Howell is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howell
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- Miller
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Miller is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller
- Wyoming Station ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Wyoming Station is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming Station
- Wyoming Station has also been known as:
- Wyoming
- Millbrook
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Millbrook is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millbrook
- Jelm
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- New Jelm
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- New Jelm is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Jelm
- Woods Landing - Jelm
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Woods Landing - Jelm is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Landing - Jelm
- Woods Landing
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Woods Landing is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Landing
- Hatton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Hatton is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatton
- Bosler Junction
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Bosler Junction is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosler Junction
- Bosler
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Bosler is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosler
- Laramie County
- County Website: https://www.laramiecountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Laramie: Cheyenne
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Colores ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Colores.
- Harriman
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Harriman is located in Laramie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harriman
- Hecla ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Hecla is located in Laramie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hecla
- Granite Canon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Granite Canon is located in Laramie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite Canon
- Granite
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Granite is located in Laramie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
- Islay
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Islay is located in Laramie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Islay
- Murke
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Murke is located in Laramie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murke
- Silver Crown
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Silver Crown is located in Laramie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Crown
- Horse Creek
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Borie
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Borie is located in Laramie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borie
- Altus
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Altus is located in Laramie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altus
- Larimer County
- County Website: https://www.larimer.gov/
- County Seat for Larimer: Fort Collins (CO)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Colores ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Colores.
- Virginia Dale
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Red Feather Lakes
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Goodell Corner
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Goodell Corner is located in Larimer County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodell Corner
- Manhattan ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Manhattan is located in Larimer County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manhattan
- Livermore
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Rex
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Rex is located in Larimer County (CO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rex
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Colores) 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. |
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