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Nearest Communities to Franklin,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 Franklin.<1>

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

Franklin is located in Greenlee County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Greenlee County: Apache, Cochise, Graham, Catron (NM), Grant (NM) & Hidalgo (NM).

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

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

  • Greenlee County   (where Franklin resides)
  • Cochise County
  • Graham County
    • County Website:   https://www.graham.az.gov/
    • County Seat for Graham:   Safford
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Franklin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Franklin.
      • Whitlock Cienega ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Little Franks
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Little Franks is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Franks
      • Chaney Place
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Chaney Place is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaney Place
      • Tanque
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Tanque is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanque
      • Sanchez ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Sanchez is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanchez
      • Buena Vista ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Buena Vista is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista
  • Grant County
    • County Website:   https://www.grantcountynm.gov/
    • County Seat for Grant:   Silver City (NM)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Franklin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Franklin.
      • Hext Place
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Hext Place is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hext Place
      • Steeplerock ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Steeplerock is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steeplerock
      • East Camp ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • East Camp is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Camp
      • McKelvey Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • McKelvey Place is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKelvey Place
      • Chapman Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Chapman Place is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapman Place
      • Moore Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Moore Place is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moore Place
      • Estes Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Estes Place is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estes Place
      • Sid Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Sid Place is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sid Place
      • Gunn Place ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Gunn Place is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunn Place
      • Matthew Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Matthew Place is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matthew Place
      • Redrock
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Telegraph ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Telegraph is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telegraph
      • Edgal Place
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Edgal Place is located in Grant County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgal Place
  • Hidalgo County
    • County Website:   https://hidalgocounty.org/
    • County Seat for Hidalgo:   Lordsburg (NM)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Franklin   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Franklin.
      • Virden
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Virden is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virden
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 125 people
      • Gary
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Gary is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gary
      • Mondel
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Mondel is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mondel

Footnotes ...

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