Nearest Communities to Willcox,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Willcox, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Willcox:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Willcox.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Willcox 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 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Willcox. Of these communities, 5 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 Willcox (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 Willcox
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Cochise County (where Willcox resides)
- County Website: https://www.cochise.az.gov/
- County Seat for Cochise: Bisbee
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willcox ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willcox.
- Raso
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Raso is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raso
- Cochise
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Luzena
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Luzena is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luzena
- Kansas Settlement
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Kansas Settlement is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kansas Settlement
- Buckeye Mill
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Buckeye Mill is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye Mill
- Bowie Junction ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Bowie Junction is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowie Junction
- Dos Cabezas
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Manzoro
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Manzoro is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manzoro
- Johnson ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Johnson is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson
- Dragoon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Bowie
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Light ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
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- Camp Bowie ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Fort Bowie ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Arizona Sun Sites
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Arizona Sun Sites is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arizona Sun Sites
- Pearce
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Hookers Hot Springs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Hookers Hot Springs is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hookers Hot Springs
- Tully
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Tully is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tully
- Olga
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Olga is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olga
- Sunizona
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Black Diamond ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Black Diamond is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Diamond
- Bradberry
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Bradberry is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradberry
- Fenner
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Fenner is located in Cochise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fenner
- Graham County
- County Website: https://www.graham.az.gov/
- County Seat for Graham: Safford
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Willcox ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Willcox.
- Bonita ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Bonita is located in Graham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonita
- Turkey Flat
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Turkey Flat is located in Graham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Flat
- Fort Grant
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Sunset ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Sunset is located in Graham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset
- Tanque
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Tanque is located in Graham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanque
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- Willcox) 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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