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Nearest Communities to Bowie,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Bowie.<1>

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

Bowie is located in Cochise County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cochise County: Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Santa Cruz & Hidalgo (NM).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bowie. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Cochise 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 Bowie (which is Cochise 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 Bowie

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

  • Cochise County   (where Bowie resides)
    • County Website:   www.cochise.az.gov/
    • County Seat for Cochise:   Bisbee
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bowie   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bowie.
      • Olga
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Olga have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olga
        • Olga is located in Cochise County
      • Buckeye Mill
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buckeye Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye Mill
        • Buckeye Mill is located in Cochise County
      • Bowie Junction ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bowie Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowie Junction
        • Bowie Junction is located in Cochise County
      • Luzena
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Luzena have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luzena
        • Luzena is located in Cochise County
      • Yellow Hammer Mill
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yellow Hammer Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Hammer Mill
        • Yellow Hammer Mill is located in Cochise County
      • Camp Bowie ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Fort Bowie ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Dos Cabezas
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • San Simon
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Raso
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Raso have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raso
        • Raso is located in Cochise County
      • Taylor Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Taylor Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Place
        • Taylor Place is located in Cochise County
      • Willcox
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Vanar
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vanar have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanar
          • Vanar is located in Cochise County
        • Wheeler Place
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wheeler Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Place
          • Wheeler Place is located in Cochise County
        • Kansas Settlement
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kansas Settlement have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kansas Settlement
          • Kansas Settlement is located in Cochise County
        • Hilltop ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hilltop. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
          • Hilltop is located in Cochise County

            • Google driving directions:

            From your current location to Hilltop

            From Bowie to Hilltop

        • Cochise
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Galeyville
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Galeyville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galeyville
          • Galeyville is located in Cochise County
  • Graham County
    • County Website:   www.graham.az.gov/
    • County Seat for Graham:   Safford
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bowie   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bowie.
      • Chaney Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chaney Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaney Place
        • Chaney Place is located in Graham County
      • Little Franks
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Franks have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Franks
        • Little Franks is located in Graham County
      • Whitlock Cienega ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Tanque
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tanque have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanque
        • Tanque is located in Graham County
      • Artesia
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Turkey Flat
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Turkey Flat have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Flat
        • Turkey Flat is located in Graham County
      • Swift Trail Junction
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Hidalgo 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 from Point A (ie- Bowie) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bowie. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.3262, Longitude: -109.4871    
<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>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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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