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Nearest Communities to Franconia,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Franconia is located in Mohave County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mohave County: Coconino, La Paz, Yavapai, San Bernardino (CA), Clark (NV), Lincoln (NV), Kane (UT) & Washington (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Franconia. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Mohave 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 Franconia (which is Mohave 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 Franconia

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

  • Mohave County   (where Franconia resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.mohave.az.us/
    • County Seat for Mohave:   Kingman
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Franconia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Franconia.
      • Haviland
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haviland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haviland
        • Haviland is located in Mohave County
      • Powell ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Powell. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
        • Powell is located in Mohave County

          • Google driving directions:

          From your current location to Powell

          From Franconia to Powell

      • Yucca
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Catfish Paradise
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Catfish Paradise have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catfish Paradise
        • Catfish Paradise is located in Mohave County
      • Topock
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Jops Landing
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jops Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jops Landing
        • Jops Landing is located in Mohave County
      • Desert Hills
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Desert Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert Hills
        • Desert Hills is located in Mohave County
      • Fivemile Landing
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Athos
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Athos have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athos
        • Athos is located in Mohave County
      • Lake Havasu City
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Arizona Village
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Arizona Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arizona Village
        • Arizona Village is located in Mohave County
      • Oatman
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (13 more) ...
        • Oldtrails ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Drake
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Drake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drake
          • Drake is located in Mohave County
        • Mohave Valley
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Willow Valley
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Valley
          • Willow Valley is located in Mohave County
        • Mesquite Creek
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Mojave Ranch Estates
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mojave Ranch Estates have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mojave Ranch Estates
          • Mojave Ranch Estates is located in Mohave County
        • Griffith
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Griffith have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griffith
          • Griffith is located in Mohave County
        • Fort Mohave
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Cedar
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Harris ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Harris. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
          • Harris is located in Mohave County

            • Google driving directions:

            From your current location to Harris

            From Franconia to Harris

        • McConnico
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Hardyville ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hardyville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardyville
          • Hardyville is located in Mohave County

            • Google driving directions:

            From your current location to Hardyville

            From Franconia to Hardyville

        • Mojave City
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mojave City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mojave City
          • Mojave City is located in Mohave County
  • San Bernardino County
    • County Website:   www.sbcounty.gov/
    • County Seat for San Bernardino:   San Bernardino (CA)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Franconia   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Franconia.
      • Parker Junction
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Havasu Lake
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Needles
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Havasu Palms
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Tin Shack ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tin Shack have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tin Shack
        • Tin Shack is located in San Bernardino County (CA)
      • Black Meadow Landing
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Black Meadow Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Meadow Landing
        • Black Meadow Landing is located in San Bernardino County (CA)
      • Java
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Java have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Java
        • Java is located in San Bernardino County (CA)
      • Klinefelter
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Klinefelter have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klinefelter
        • Klinefelter is located in San Bernardino County (CA)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Franconia) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Franconia. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7395, Longitude: -114.2682       In this case, the coordinates for Franconia have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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.
<5>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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