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Nearest Communities to Crystal River,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.<1>

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

Crystal River is located in Citrus County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Citrus County: Hernando, Levy, Marion & Sumter.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 118 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Crystal River. Of these communities, 84 are located in counties other than Citrus 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 Crystal River (which is Citrus 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 Crystal River

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

  • Citrus County   (where Crystal River resides)
  • Hernando County
  • Levy County
  • Marion County
    • County Website:   https://www.marionfl.org/
    • County Seat for Marion:   Ocala
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Crystal River   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Crystal River.
      • Dunnellon
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Chatmire
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Rainbow Falls
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Rainbow Falls is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow Falls
      • Rainbow Lakes Estates
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Rolling Ranches
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Rolling Ranches is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Ranches
      • Rocksprings
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Rocksprings is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocksprings
      • Luddersville
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Luddersville is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luddersville
      • Hoyt
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Hoyt is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoyt
      • Rolling Hills
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Rolling Hills is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Hills
      • Leroy ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Leroy is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leroy
      • Rainbow Park
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Rainbow Park is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow Park
      • Romeo
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Romeo is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romeo
      • Continue List   (20 more) ...
        • Ross Prairie
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Ross Prairie is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross Prairie
        • York
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Marion Oaks
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Marion Oaks is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion Oaks
        • Cotton Plant
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Cotton Plant is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Plant
        • Early Bird
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Early Bird is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Early Bird
        • Ocala Estates
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Ocala Estates is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocala Estates
        • Ocala Waterway
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Ocala Waterway is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocala Waterway
        • Bahia Oaks
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Bahia Oaks is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bahia Oaks
        • Mount Olive
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Mount Olive is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Olive
        • Saddle Oak Club
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Saddle Oak Club is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saddle Oak Club
        • Pedro
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Pedro is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedro
        • Martel
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Martel is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martel
        • Ocala Thoroughbred Acres
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Shady
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Shady is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady
        • Sherman Oaks
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Sherman Oaks is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Oaks
        • Danks Corner
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Monroes Corner
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Monroes Corner is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monroes Corner
        • Blitchton
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Blitchton is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blitchton
        • Fellowship
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Ocala Ridge
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Ocala Ridge is located in Marion County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocala Ridge
  • Sumter 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Crystal River) 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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