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Nearest Communities to Gladden,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Gladden is located in Maricopa County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Maricopa County: Gila, La Paz, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai & Yuma.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Gladden. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Maricopa 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 Gladden (which is Maricopa 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 Gladden

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

  • Maricopa County   (where Gladden resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.maricopa.gov/
    • County Seat for Maricopa:   Phoenix
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gladden   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gladden.
      • Cullen's Well ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Cullen's Well is located in Maricopa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cullen's Well
      • Aguila
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Ambrosia Mill
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Ambrosia Mill is located in Maricopa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ambrosia Mill
      • Forepaugh ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Forepaugh is located in Maricopa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forepaugh
      • Vulture City ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Vulture City is located in Maricopa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulture City
        • Vulture City has also been known as:
        • Vulture Mine
        • Vulture
      • Matthie
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Matthie is located in Maricopa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matthie
  • La Paz County
    • County Website:   https://www.lapaz.gov/
    • County Seat for La Paz:   Parker
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gladden   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gladden.
      • Love
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Love is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Love
      • Wenden
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Salome
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Harcuvar
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Harcuvar is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harcuvar
      • Centennial
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Centennial is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centennial
      • Harqua Hala ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Harqua Hala is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harqua Hala
      • Hope
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Hope is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope
      • Vicksburg
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Vicksburg is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicksburg
      • Bush Pit
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Bush Pit is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush Pit
      • Alamo Crossing ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Alamo Crossing is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo Crossing
      • Vicksburg Junction
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Vicksburg Junction is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicksburg Junction
  • Mohave County
  • Yavapai 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- Gladden) 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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