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Nearest Communities to Olive City,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.

Although our information shows that the community of Olive City<2> is historic,<3> 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 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Olive City. 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,<4> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Olive City (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 Olive City

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

  • La Paz County   (where Olive City resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.lapaz.gov/
    • County Seat for La Paz:   Parker
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Olive City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Olive City.
      • Ehrenberg
        (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Morgantown
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Morgantown is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgantown
      • La Paz ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • La Paz is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Paz
      • La Paz Valley
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • La Paz Valley is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Paz Valley
      • Quartzsite
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Cibola
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Cibola is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cibola
      • Plomosa ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Plomosa is located in La Paz County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plomosa
      • Poston
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Imperial County
  • Riverside County
    • County Website:   https://rivco.org/
    • County Seat for Riverside:   Riverside (CA)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Olive City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Olive City.
      • East Blythe
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
        • East Blythe is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Blythe
      • Blythe
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Blythe is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blythe
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 19,673 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Blythe <5>
      • Miller Farms
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Miller Farms is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller Farms
      • Tosco ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Tosco is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tosco
      • Mesaville
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Mesaville is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesaville
      • Ripley
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Ripley is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripley
      • Mesa Verde
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Mesa Verde is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Verde
      • Rannells ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Rannells is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rannells
      • Inca
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Inca is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inca
      • Cox
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Cox is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cox
      • Midland ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Midland is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midland
      • Styx
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Styx is located in Riverside County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Styx

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Olive City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>Olive City is also known as Bradshaw's Ferry or Olivia. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Olive City.
<3>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 Olive City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.