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Nearest Communities to Oljato - Monument Valley,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Oljato - Monument Valley.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Oljato - Monument Valley is located in Navajo County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Navajo County: Apache, Coconino, Gila, Graham & San Juan (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oljato - Monument Valley. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Navajo 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 Oljato - Monument Valley (which is Navajo 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 Oljato - Monument Valley

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

  • Navajo County   (where Oljato - Monument Valley resides)
  • Apache County
    • County Website:   https://www.apachecountyaz.gov/
    • County Seat for Apache:   Saint Johns
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oljato - Monument Valley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oljato - Monument Valley.
      • Diamond Fields
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Diamond Fields is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond Fields
      • Dennehotso
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Tes Nez Iah
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Tes Nez Iah is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tes Nez Iah
      • Sand Springs
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Sand Springs is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
      • Mexican Water
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Mexican Water is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexican Water
  • San Juan County
    • County Website:   https://sanjuancountyut.gov/
    • County Seat for San Juan:   Monticello (UT)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oljato - Monument Valley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oljato - Monument Valley.
      • Goulding
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
        • Goulding is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goulding
      • Oljato - Monument Valley
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Oljato
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Oljato is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oljato
        • Oljato has also been known as:
        • Moonlight
        • Oljato Trading Post
        • Olje
        • Oljeto Trading Post
        • Oljeto
        • Oljetoh Trading Post
      • Halchita
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Halchita is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halchita
      • Mexican Hat
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Piute Farms ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Piute Farms is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piute Farms
      • Clay Hills Crossing
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Clay Hills Crossing is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clay Hills Crossing
      • Zahn's Camp ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Zahn's Camp is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zahn's Camp

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Oljato - Monument Valley) 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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