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Nearest Communities to Anton,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 Anton.<1>

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

Anton is located in Washington County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Washington County: Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan & Yuma.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Anton. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Washington 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 Anton (which is Washington 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 Anton

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

  • Washington County   (where Anton resides)
    • County Seat for Washington:   Akron
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Anton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Anton.
      • Arickaree ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Arickaree. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arickaree
        • Arickaree is located in Washington County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Arickaree
        • From Anton to Arickaree
      • Thurman ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Thurman. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thurman
        • Thurman is located in Washington County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Thurman
        • From Anton to Thurman
      • Lindon
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Wiladel ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Wiladel. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiladel
        • Wiladel is located in Washington County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Wiladel
        • From Anton to Wiladel
      • Elba ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Elba. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elba
        • Elba is located in Washington County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Elba
        • From Anton to Elba
      • Last Chance
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Cope
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Rago ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Rago. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rago
        • Rago is located in Washington County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Rago
        • From Anton to Rago
      • Woodrow
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Akron
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Platner
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Xenia ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Xenia. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Xenia
        • Xenia is located in Washington County
        • Xenia has also been known as:
        • Cody
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Xenia
        • From Anton to Xenia
      • Harmon ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Harmon. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmon
        • Harmon is located in Washington County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Harmon
        • From Anton to Harmon
  • Lincoln County
  • Morgan County
  • Yuma County
    • County Seat for Yuma:   Wray
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Anton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Anton.
      • Abarr
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Abarr have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abarr
        • Abarr is located in Yuma County
        • Former name for Abarr:
        • Brownsville
      • Joes
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Beverly Grove
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beverly Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly Grove
        • Beverly Grove is located in Yuma 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 from Point A (ie- Anton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Anton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.7412, Longitude: -103.2175    
<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>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.




 

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