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Nearest Communities to Dehorn,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 starting from Dehorn.<1>

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

Dehorn is located in Gila County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gila County: Coconino, Graham, Maricopa, Navajo, Pinal & Yavapai.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Dehorn. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Gila 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 Dehorn (which is Gila 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 Dehorn

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

  • Gila County   (where Dehorn resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.gilacountyaz.gov/
    • County Seat for Gila:   Globe
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dehorn   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Dehorn.
      • Rocky Junction
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Rocky Junction is located in Gila County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Junction
      • Black River Crossing
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Bear Canyon Junction
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Sawmill
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Sawmill is located in Gila County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawmill
      • San Carlos
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Canyon Day
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Canyon Day is located in Gila County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Day
      • Fort Apache Junction
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Peridot
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Cedar Creek Crossing
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Seneca ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Seneca is located in Gila County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seneca
        • Cedar Creek
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Cedar Creek is located in Gila County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek
        • Tucker
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Tucker is located in Gila County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tucker
        • Chrysotile ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Chrysotile is located in Gila County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chrysotile
        • McMillenville ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • McMillenville is located in Gila County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McMillenville
          • McMillenville has also been known as:
          • McMillanville
          • McMillianville
        • Cutter
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Cutter is located in Gila County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutter
  • Graham County
  • Navajo 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Dehorn) 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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