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Nearest Communities to McKinleyville,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.

McKinleyville is located in Humboldt County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Humboldt County: Del Norte, Mendocino, Siskiyou & Trinity.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 104 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of McKinleyville. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Humboldt 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 McKinleyville (which is Humboldt 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 McKinleyville

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

  • Humboldt County   (where McKinleyville resides)
    • Given the large number of communities that are located in Humboldt County, we have limited the list to those within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of McKinleyville (about 100 communities).
    • County Website:   https://humboldtgov.org/
    • County Seat for Humboldt:   Eureka
    • Note: The western boundary of the county is on the Pacific Ocean
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to McKinleyville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from McKinleyville.
      • Calville
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
        • Calville is also located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calville
      • Fisher
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
        • Fisher is also located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
      • Tyee City
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Tyee City is also located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyee City
      • Fieldbrook
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • Fieldbrook is also located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fieldbrook
      • Clam Beach
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Clam Beach is also located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clam Beach
      • Alliance
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Korblex
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Korblex is also located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Korblex
      • Crannell ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Crannell was located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crannell
      • Essex
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Essex is also located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essex
      • Moonstone
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Moonstone is also located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moonstone
      • Arcata
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Glendale
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Glendale is also located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale
      • Continue List   (89 more) ...
  • Trinity County

Footnotes ...

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