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Nearest Communities to Engesser Junction,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Engesser Junction.<1>

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

Engesser Junction is located in Yuma County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Yuma County: La Paz, Maricopa, Pima & Imperial (CA).

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

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

  • Yuma County   (where Engesser Junction resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.yumacountyaz.gov/
    • County Seat for Yuma:   Yuma
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Engesser Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Engesser Junction.
      • Kofa ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Kofa is located in Yuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kofa
      • Growler
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Growler is located in Yuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Growler
      • Camp Horn ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Camp Horn is located in Yuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Horn
      • Norton
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Norton is located in Yuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton
      • Tyson ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Tyson is located in Yuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyson
      • Horn
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Horn is located in Yuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horn
      • Palomas
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Palomas is located in Yuma County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palomas
  • La Paz County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Engesser Junction) 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.