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Nearest Communities to San Simon,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 San Simon.<1>

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

San Simon 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 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of San Simon. Of these communities, 14 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 San Simon (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 San Simon

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

  • Cochise County   (where San Simon resides)
    • County Website:   www.cochise.az.gov/
    • County Seat for Cochise:   Bisbee
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to San Simon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from San Simon.
      • Vanar
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vanar have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanar
        • Vanar is located in Cochise County
      • Yellow Hammer Mill
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yellow Hammer Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Hammer Mill
        • Yellow Hammer Mill is located in Cochise County
      • Wheeler Place
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wheeler Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Place
        • Wheeler Place is located in Cochise County
      • Olga
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Olga have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olga
        • Olga is located in Cochise County
      • Camp Bowie ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Fort Bowie ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Taylor Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Taylor Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Place
        • Taylor Place is located in Cochise County
      • Bowie
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Hilltop ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hilltop. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
        • Hilltop is located in Cochise County

          • Google driving directions:

          From your current location to Hilltop

          From San Simon to Hilltop

      • Buckeye Mill
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buckeye Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye Mill
        • Buckeye Mill is located in Cochise County
      • Galeyville
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Galeyville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galeyville
        • Galeyville is located in Cochise County
      • Paradise
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
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        • Dos Cabezas
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Portal
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Bowie Junction ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bowie Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowie Junction
          • Bowie Junction is located in Cochise County
        • Luzena
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Luzena have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luzena
          • Luzena is located in Cochise County
  • Graham County
    • County Website:   www.graham.az.gov/
    • County Seat for Graham:   Safford
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to San Simon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from San Simon.
      • Little Franks
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Franks have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Franks
        • Little Franks is located in Graham County
      • Chaney Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chaney Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaney Place
        • Chaney Place is located in Graham County
      • Whitlock Cienega ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Tanque
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tanque have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanque
        • Tanque is located in Graham County
  • Greenlee County
  • Hidalgo County
    • County Seat for Hidalgo:   Lordsburg (NM)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to San Simon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from San Simon.
      • Steins ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • McGhee Wells
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McGhee Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGhee Wells
        • McGhee Wells is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
      • Mondel
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mondel have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mondel
        • Mondel is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
      • Cotton City
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cotton City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton City
        • Cotton City is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
      • Gary
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gary have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gary
        • Gary is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
      • Leitendorf ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leitendorf have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leitendorf
        • Leitendorf is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
      • Shakespeare ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Valedon ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Valedon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valedon
        • Valedon is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
      • Lordsburg
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- San Simon) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in San Simon. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.2666, Longitude: -109.2272    
<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.




 

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