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Nearest Communities to Tyson,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Tyson.<1>

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


Although our information shows that the community of Tyson is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Yuma County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Yuma County: La Paz, Maricopa, Pima & Imperial (CA).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Tyson.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Tyson (which is Yuma 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 Tyson

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

  • Yuma County   (where Tyson resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.yuma.az.us/
    • County Seat for Yuma:   Yuma
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Tyson   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Tyson.
      • Growler
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Growler have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Growler
        • Growler is located in Yuma County
      • Norton
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Norton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton
        • Norton is located in Yuma County
        • Google driving directions:

          From your current location to Norton

          From Tyson to Norton

      • Colfred
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Colfred have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colfred
        • Colfred is located in Yuma County
      • Owl
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Owl have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owl
        • Owl is located in Yuma County
      • Roll
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Tacna
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Mohawk
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mohawk have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohawk
        • Mohawk is located in Yuma County
      • Tanque Aloma
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tanque Aloma have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanque Aloma
        • Tanque Aloma is located in Yuma County
      • Kim
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kim have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kim
        • Kim is located in Yuma County
      • Noah
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Noah have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noah
        • Noah is located in Yuma County
      • Asher
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Asher have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asher
        • Asher is located in Yuma County
      • Kofa ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Kofa. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kofa
        • Kofa is located in Yuma County
        • Google driving directions:

          From your current location to Kofa

          From Tyson to Kofa

      • Continue List   (12 more) ...
        • Stoval
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stoval have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoval
          • Stoval is located in Yuma County
        • Wellton
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Dateland
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Camp Horn ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Palomas
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Palomas. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palomas
          • Palomas is located in Yuma County
          • Google driving directions:

            From your current location to Palomas

            From Tyson to Palomas

        • Horn
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Horn have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horn
          • Horn is located in Yuma County
        • Aztec
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Ligurta
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Engesser Junction
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Engesser Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Engesser Junction
          • Engesser Junction is located in Yuma County
        • Dome ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Fort Laguna ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fort Laguna. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Laguna
          • Fort Laguna is located in Yuma County
          • Google driving directions:

            From your current location to Fort Laguna

            From Tyson to Fort Laguna

        • Kinter
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kinter have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinter
          • Kinter is located in Yuma County

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- Tyson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Tyson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.7957, Longitude: -113.8805       In this case, the coordinates for Tyson have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>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 Tyson, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>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.
<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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