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Nearest Communities to Peoria,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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 starting from Peoria.<1>

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

Peoria is located in Arapahoe County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Arapahoe County: Adams, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Jefferson, Lincoln & Washington.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Peoria. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Arapahoe 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 Peoria (which is Arapahoe 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 Peoria

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

  • Arapahoe County   (where Peoria resides)
  • Adams County
    • County Website:   www.co.adams.co.us/
    • County Seat for Adams:   Brighton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Peoria   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Peoria.
      • Cabin Creek
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cabin Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabin Creek
        • Cabin Creek is located in Adams County
      • Strasburg
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Leader
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leader have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leader
        • Leader is located in Adams County
      • Living Springs
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Living Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Living Springs
        • Living Springs is located in Adams County
      • Bennett
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Shamrock
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shamrock have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shamrock
        • Shamrock is located in Adams County
      • Manila
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manila have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manila
        • Manila is located in Adams County
      • Comanche ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Comanche have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comanche
        • Comanche is located in Adams County
      • Watkins
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Elbert County
    • County Website:   www.elbertcounty-co.gov/
    • County Seat for Elbert:   Kiowa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Peoria   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Peoria.
      • Agate
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Bijou
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bijou have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bijou
        • Bijou is located in Elbert County
      • Cedar Point
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Point have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Point
        • Cedar Point is located in Elbert County
      • Kiowa
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kiowa have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiowa
        • Kiowa is located in Elbert County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 826 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kiowa <3>
  • Morgan County
    • County Seat for Morgan:   Fort Morgan
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Peoria   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Peoria.
      • Hoyt
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoyt
        • Hoyt is located in Morgan County
      • Adena
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Adena have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adena
        • Adena is located in Morgan County
  • Washington 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Peoria) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Peoria. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6797, Longitude: -104.1141       In this case, the coordinates for Peoria have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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.




 

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