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Nearest Communities to Fort Defiance,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Fort Defiance is located in Apache County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Apache County: Graham, Greenlee, Navajo, Montezuma (CO), Catron (NM), Cibola (NM), McKinley (NM), San Juan (NM) & San Juan (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 43 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fort Defiance. Of these communities, 27 are located in counties other than Apache 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 Fort Defiance (which is Apache 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 Fort Defiance

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

  • Apache County   (where Fort Defiance resides)
  • McKinley County
    • County Website:   www.co.mckinley.nm.us/
    • County Seat for McKinley:   Gallup (NM)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fort Defiance   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Defiance.
      • Tse Bonito
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tse Bonito have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tse Bonito
        • Tse Bonito is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Navajo
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Navajo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo
        • Navajo is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Navajo <4>
      • Mexican Springs
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Twin Lakes
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twin Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes
        • Twin Lakes is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Rock Springs
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Yah-ta-hey
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yah-ta-hey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yah-ta-hey
        • Yah-ta-hey is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Tohatchi
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Defiance
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Gamerco ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gamerco have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gamerco
        • Gamerco is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Mentmore ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mentmore have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mentmore
        • Mentmore is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Twin Buttes
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twin Buttes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Buttes
        • Twin Buttes is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Gibson ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gibson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
        • Gibson is located in McKinley County (NM)
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        • Manuelito
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manuelito have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manuelito
          • Manuelito is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Allison ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Allison have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allison
          • Allison is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Heaton ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heaton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
          • Heaton is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Weaver ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weaver have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weaver
          • Weaver is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Gallup
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Brimhall Nizhoni
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brimhall Nizhoni have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brimhall Nizhoni
          • Brimhall Nizhoni is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Coyote Canyon
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coyote Canyon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Canyon
          • Coyote Canyon is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Buffalo Springs
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buffalo Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Springs
          • Buffalo Springs is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Red Rock
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Rehoboth
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Zuni
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Zuni have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zuni
          • Zuni is located in McKinley County (NM)
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Zuni <4>
        • Navajo Wingate Village
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Navajo Wingate Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo Wingate Village
          • Navajo Wingate Village is located in McKinley County (NM)
        • Church Rock
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • McCune
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCune have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCune
          • McCune is located in McKinley County (NM)
  • San Juan 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- Fort Defiance) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Defiance. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7418, Longitude: -109.0720    
<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.




 

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