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Nearest Communities to Olga,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Olga is located in Cochise County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cochise County: Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Santa Cruz & Hidalgo (NM).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Olga. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Cochise 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 Olga (which is Cochise 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 Olga

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

  • Cochise County   (where Olga resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.cochise.az.gov/
    • County Seat for Cochise:   Bisbee
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Olga   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Olga.
      • Yellow Hammer Mill
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Yellow Hammer Mill is located in Cochise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Hammer Mill
      • Bowie
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • San Simon
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Camp Bowie ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Camp Bowie is located in Cochise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Bowie
      • Fort Bowie ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Fort Bowie is located in Cochise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Bowie
      • Buckeye Mill
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Buckeye Mill is located in Cochise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye Mill
      • Vanar
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Vanar is located in Cochise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanar
      • Taylor Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Taylor Place is located in Cochise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Place
      • Wheeler Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Wheeler Place is located in Cochise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Place
      • Bowie Junction ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Bowie Junction is located in Cochise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowie Junction
      • Luzena
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Luzena is located in Cochise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luzena
      • Dos Cabezas
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Dos Cabezas is located in Cochise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dos Cabezas
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Hilltop ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Hilltop is located in Cochise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
        • Raso
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
          • Raso is located in Cochise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raso
        • Galeyville
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Galeyville is located in Cochise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galeyville
        • Paradise
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Paradise is located in Cochise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
        • Willcox
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Kansas Settlement
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Kansas Settlement is located in Cochise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kansas Settlement
        • Portal
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Graham County
    • County Website:   https://www.graham.az.gov/
    • County Seat for Graham:   Safford
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Olga   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Olga.
      • Chaney Place
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Chaney Place is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaney Place
      • Little Franks
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Little Franks is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Franks
      • Whitlock Cienega ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Whitlock Cienega is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitlock Cienega
      • Tanque
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Tanque is located in Graham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanque
  • Greenlee County
  • Hidalgo 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- Olga) 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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