Nearest Communities to Sentinel,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sentinel, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sentinel:
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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sentinel is located in Maricopa County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Maricopa County: Gila, La Paz, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai & Yuma.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sentinel. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Maricopa 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 Sentinel (which is Maricopa 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 Sentinel
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Maricopa County (where Sentinel resides)
- County Website: www.maricopa.gov/
- County Seat for Maricopa: Phoenix
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Arizona
- Maricopa County
- From Family Search:
- State of Arizona
- Maricopa County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Arizona
- Maricopa County
- Nearest Communities to Sentinel ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sentinel.
- Tartron
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east) - Stanwix
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west) - Agua Caliente
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agua Caliente
- Agua Caliente is located in Maricopa County
- Piedra
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east) - Camel
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north) - Montezuma
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north) - Papago
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north) - Theba
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Theba
- Theba is located in Maricopa County
- Saddle
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Sundad ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Smurr
(23 miles [37 km] to the east) - Midway
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - Continue List (7 more) ...
- Point of Rocks
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Point of Rocks have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point of Rocks
- Point of Rocks is located in Maricopa County
- Gila Bend
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gila Bend
- Gila Bend is located in Maricopa County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,118 people
- Former name for Gila Bend:
- Gila
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gila Bend <4>
- San Lucy Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for San Lucy Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Lucy Village
- San Lucy Village is located in Maricopa County
- Sil Murk ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Harqua ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast) - Gillespie
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast) - Rocky Point
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rocky Point have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Point
- Rocky Point is located in Maricopa County
- Point of Rocks
- Yuma County
- County Website: www.co.yuma.az.us/
- County Seat for Yuma: Yuma
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Arizona
- Yuma County
- From Family Search:
- State of Arizona
- Yuma County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Arizona
- Yuma County
- Nearest Communities to Sentinel ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sentinel.
- Hyder ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest) - Aztec
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aztec
- Aztec is located in Yuma County
- Palomas
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west) - Horn
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west) - Dateland
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dateland
- Dateland is located in Yuma County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dateland <4>
- Camp Horn ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Horn
- Camp Horn is located in Yuma County
- Stoval
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west) - Kofa ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west) - Kim
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Sentinel) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sentinel. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.8581, Longitude: -113.2132 In this case, the coordinates for Sentinel have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |