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Nearest Communities to Greer Place,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.


Greer Place 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 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Greer Place. Of these communities, 10 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 Greer Place (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 Greer Place

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

  • Apache County   (where Greer Place resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.apachecountyaz.gov/
    • County Seat for Apache:   Saint Johns
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Greer Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Greer Place.
      • Hunt
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
        • Hunt is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunt
      • Concho
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Heap Place
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Heap Place is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heap Place
      • Potter Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Potter Place is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potter Place
      • Saint Johns
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Salado
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Salado is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salado
      • El Tule
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • El Tule is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Tule
      • Vernon
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Richville ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Richville is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richville
      • Paulcell Place
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Paulcell Place is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paulcell Place
      • Adamana ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Adamana is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adamana
      • Green Spot
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Green Spot is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Spot
  • Navajo County
    • County Website:   https://www.navajocountyaz.gov/
    • County Seat for Navajo:   Holbrook
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Greer Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Greer Place.
      • Headquarters
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Headquarters is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Headquarters
      • Silver Creek
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Silver Creek is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Creek
      • Woodruff
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Snowflake
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Ubank Place
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Ubank Place is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ubank Place
      • Bell
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Bell is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell
      • White Mountain Lake
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • White Mountain Lakes Estates
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Shumway
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Shumway is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shumway
      • Taylor
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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- Greer Place) 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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