RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Arizona >> La Paz County >> La Paz >> Nearby CommunitiesIndex...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
Arizona

The Commemorative Quarter for Arizona





Nearest Communities to La Paz,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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.

Although our information shows that the community of La Paz is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day La Paz County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of La Paz County: Maricopa, Mohave, Yavapai, Yuma, Imperial (CA), Riverside (CA) & San Bernardino (CA).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of La Paz. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than La Paz County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for La Paz (which is La Paz 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 La Paz

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

  • La Paz County   (where La Paz resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.la-paz.az.us/
    • County Seat for La Paz:   Parker
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to La Paz   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from La Paz.
      • Morgantown
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgantown
        • Morgantown is located in La Paz County
      • Ehrenberg
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Olive City ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Olive City have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olive City
        • Olive City is located in La Paz County
        • Olive City has also been known as:
        • Bradshaw's Ferry
        • Olivia
      • Quartzsite
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • La Paz Valley
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Paz Valley
        • La Paz Valley is located in La Paz County
      • Plomosa ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plomosa have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plomosa
        • Plomosa is located in La Paz County
      • Poston
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Brenda
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brenda
        • Brenda is located in La Paz County
      • Cibola
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cibola have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cibola
        • Cibola is located in La Paz County
      • Bouse
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Pioneer
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pioneer have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer
        • Pioneer is located in La Paz County
      • Utting
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utting
        • Utting is located in La Paz County
  • Imperial County
  • Riverside County
    • County Website:   www.co.riverside.ca.us/
    • County Seat for Riverside:   Riverside (CA)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to La Paz   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from La Paz.
      • East Blythe
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Blythe
        • East Blythe is located in Riverside County (CA)
      • Blythe
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blythe
        • Blythe is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 19,673 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Blythe <4>
      • Tosco ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tosco have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tosco
        • Tosco is located in Riverside County (CA)
      • Mesaville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mesaville have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesaville
        • Mesaville is located in Riverside County (CA)
      • Miller Farms
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miller Farms have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller Farms
        • Miller Farms is located in Riverside County (CA)
      • Ripley
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ripley have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripley
        • Ripley is located in Riverside County (CA)
      • Mesa Verde
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Verde
        • Mesa Verde is located in Riverside County (CA)
      • Rannells ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rannells have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rannells
        • Rannells is located in Riverside County (CA)
      • Inca
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Inca have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inca
        • Inca is located in Riverside County (CA)
      • Cox
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cox have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cox
        • Cox is located in Riverside County (CA)
      • Midland ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midland
        • Midland is located in Riverside County (CA)
      • Styx
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Styx have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Styx
        • Styx is located in Riverside County (CA)
  • San Bernardino 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- La Paz) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in La Paz. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.6792, Longitude: -114.4263       In this case, the coordinates for La Paz have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about La Paz, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.




 

Copyright 2025
All Rights Reserved

Thank you for visiting our website.

In closing, please keep in mind that we can not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of the information on this website, so use with care. We encourage you to double-check the information that is critical to you.

If you've found an error or have additional information that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to write: Click here to contact us.

This page was last modified/updated: 18 Mar 2025