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Nearest Communities to Walker,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.<1>

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

Walker is located in Yavapai County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Yavapai County: Coconino, Gila, La Paz, Maricopa & Mohave.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 131 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Walker. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Yavapai 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 Walker (which is Yavapai 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 Walker

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

  • Yavapai County   (where Walker resides)
    • Given the large number of communities that are located in Yavapai County, we have limited the list to those within 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> of Walker (about 100 communities).
    • County Website:   https://www.yavapaiaz.gov/
    • County Seat for Yavapai:   Prescott
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Walker   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Walker.
      • Howells ‑ Historic
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Breezy Pines
        (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
        • Breezy Pines is also located in Yavapai County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breezy Pines
      • Potato Patch
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Potato Patch is also located in Yavapai County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potato Patch
      • Groom Creek
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Groom Creek is also located in Yavapai County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Groom Creek
      • Venezia ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Venezia was located in Yavapai County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venezia
      • McCabe ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Oak Knoll Village
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Oak Knoll Village is also located in Yavapai County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Knoll Village
      • Palace Station ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Poland Junction
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Blue Hills Farms
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Blue Hills Farms is also located in Yavapai County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Hills Farms
      • Juniper Heights
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Juniper Heights is also located in Yavapai County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniper Heights
      • Dandrea
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Dandrea is also located in Yavapai County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dandrea
      • Continue List   (118 more) ...
  • Coconino County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Walker) 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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