Nearest Communities to McVay,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to McVay, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for McVay:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 north 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
McVay is located in 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 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of McVay. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than La Paz 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 McVay (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 McVay
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- La Paz County (where McVay resides)
- County Website: www.co.la-paz.az.us/
- County Seat for La Paz: Parker
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Arizona
- La Paz County
- From Family Search:
- State of Arizona
- La Paz County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Arizona
- La Paz County
- Nearest Communities to McVay ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from McVay.
- Bush Pit
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast) - Vicksburg
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicksburg
- Vicksburg is located in La Paz County
- Utting
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utting
- Utting is located in La Paz County
- Desert Wells
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Desert Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert Wells
- Desert Wells is located in La Paz County
- Vicksburg Junction
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vicksburg Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vicksburg Junction
- Vicksburg Junction is located in La Paz County
- Pioneer
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south) - Hope
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast) - Harcuvar
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east) - Brenda
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brenda
- Brenda is located in La Paz County
- Salome
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salome
- Salome is located in La Paz County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Salome <4>
- Bouse
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bouse
- Bouse is located in La Paz County
- Former name for Bouse:
- Brayton
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bouse <4>
- New Hope
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
- New Hope is located in La Paz County
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- Wenden
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wenden
- Wenden is located in La Paz County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wenden <4>
- Harqua Hala ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Harqua Hala. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harqua Hala
- Harqua Hala is located in La Paz County
- Midway
(18 miles [29 km] to the north) - Plomosa ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest) - Love
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east) - Quartzsite
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quartzsite
- Quartzsite is located in La Paz County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,814 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Quartzsite <4>
- Swansea ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north) - La Paz Valley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Paz Valley
- La Paz Valley is located in La Paz County
- Wenden
- Maricopa County
- County Website: www.maricopa.gov/
- County Seat for Maricopa: Phoenix
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Arizona
- Maricopa County
- From Family Search:
- State of Arizona
- Maricopa County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Nearest Communities to McVay ...
- Cullen's Well ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cullen's Well. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cullen's Well
- Cullen's Well is located in Maricopa County
- Cullen's Well ‑ Historic
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 from Point A (ie- McVay) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in McVay. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.8115, Longitude: -113.8357 |
| <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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |