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Nearest Communities to Red Mesa,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 starting from Red Mesa.<1>

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

Red Mesa is located in Apache County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Apache County: Graham, Greenlee, Navajo, Montezuma (CO), Catron (NM), Cibola (NM), McKinley (NM), San Juan (NM) & San Juan (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Red Mesa. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Apache 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 Red Mesa (which is Apache 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 Red Mesa

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

  • Apache County   (where Red Mesa resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.apachecountyaz.gov/
    • County Seat for Apache:   Saint Johns
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Mesa   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Mesa.
      • Totacon
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Totacon is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Totacon
      • Emmanuel Mission
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Emmanuel Mission is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmanuel Mission
      • Mexican Water Trading Post
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Mexican Water
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Mexican Water is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexican Water
      • Teec Nos Pos
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Twin Falls
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Twin Falls is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Falls
      • Tes Nez Iah
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Tes Nez Iah is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tes Nez Iah
      • Sand Springs
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Sand Springs is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
      • Rock Point
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Horse Mesa
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Horse Mesa is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horse Mesa
      • Dennehotso
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Yazzi
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Yazzi is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yazzi
      • Cove
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Cove is located in Apache County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove
  • Montezuma County
  • San Juan County
  • San Juan County
    • County Website:   https://sanjuancountyut.gov/
    • County Seat for San Juan:   Monticello (UT)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Red Mesa   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Red Mesa.
      • White Mesa Village
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • White Mesa Village is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Mesa Village
      • Little Water
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Little Water is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Water
      • Red Lake Village
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Red Lake Village is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lake Village
      • White Rock Curve Village
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Montezuma Creek
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Aneth
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Tselakai Dezza
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Tselakai Dezza is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tselakai Dezza
      • Bluff Fort ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Bluff Fort is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Fort
      • Bluff
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Halchita
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Halchita is located in San Juan County (UT)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halchita
      • Mexican Hat
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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- Red Mesa) 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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