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Nearest Communities to Archbold,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Archbold is located in Highlands County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Highlands County: Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Okeechobee, Osceola & Polk.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 55 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Archbold. Of these communities, 28 are located in counties other than Highlands 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 Archbold (which is Highlands 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 Archbold

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

  • Highlands County   (where Archbold resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.highlandsfl.gov/
    • County Seat for Highlands:   Sebring
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Archbold   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Archbold.
      • Childs
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
        • Childs is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childs
      • Bairs Den
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Bairs Den is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bairs Den
      • Hicoria
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
        • Hicoria is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicoria
      • Bear Hollow
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Bear Hollow is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Hollow
      • Parker Island
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Parker Island is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker Island
      • Placid Lakes
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Placid Lakes is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placid Lakes
      • Lake Placid
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Venus
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Highlands Park Estates
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Sylvan Shores
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Sylvan Shores is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Shores
      • Sunvale
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Sunvale is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunvale
      • Hen Scratch
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Hen Scratch is located in Highlands County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hen Scratch
      • Continue List   (15 more) ...
        • Marland
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Marland is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marland
        • Negrotown Knoll
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Negrotown Knoll is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Negrotown Knoll
        • Kuhlman
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
          • Kuhlman is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kuhlman
        • Brighton
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
          • Brighton is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brighton
        • Istokpoga
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
          • Istokpoga is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Istokpoga
        • Wild Island
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Wild Island is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wild Island
        • De Soto City
          (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
          • De Soto City is located in Highlands County
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        • Plains
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
          • Plains is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plains
        • Lorida
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Cornwell
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Cornwell is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornwell
        • Fort Basinger
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Fort Basinger is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Basinger
        • Sebring
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Lakemont
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Lakemont is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakemont
        • Sebring Shores
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Sebring Shores is located in Highlands County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sebring Shores
        • Avon Park
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Charlotte County
    • County Seat for Charlotte:   Punta Gorda
    • Note: The Gulf of Mexico lies to the west
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Archbold   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Archbold.
      • Sparkman
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Sparkman is located in Charlotte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparkman
      • Bermont
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Bermont is located in Charlotte County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bermont
  • DeSoto County
    • County Website:   https://www.desotobocc.com/
    • County Seat for DeSoto:   Arcadia
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Archbold   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Archbold.
      • Joshua
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Joshua is located in DeSoto County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joshua
      • Brownville
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Brownville is located in DeSoto County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownville
      • Cubitis
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Cubitis is located in DeSoto County
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  • Glades County
  • Hardee County
  • Hendry County
  • Okeechobee 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- Archbold) 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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