Don’t dismiss more rural locations. You will probably find that geography takes a back seat to colleges with high standards.
Get the Fiske or Princeton Review college guides. You need to narrow things down, these books are a good way to start.
Finding the reach schools is easy. Work on finding match and safety schools that you will be happy at. That means your GPA and test scores should be near the 75% range of their students. For safeties, it should be above that. I am not an expert on this btw, just following the advice of other CC’ers as we have gone through this process.