Nearest Communities to Layton,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Layton, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Layton:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast 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 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 east 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 Layton.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Layton is located in Monroe County.
The following 2 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Monroe County: Collier & Miami-Dade.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Layton.
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 Layton (which is Monroe 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 Layton
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Monroe County (where Layton resides)
- County Website: https://www.monroecounty-fl.gov/
- County Seat for Monroe: Key West
- Note: The Gulf of Mexico lies to the west
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Layton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Layton.
- Long Key
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Craig ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Craig is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig
- Lower Matecumbe Beach
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Conch Key
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Matecumbe Key
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Duck Key
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Valhalla
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Valhalla is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valhalla
- Islamorada
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Key Colony Beach
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Marathon Shores
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Plantation Key
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Plantation Key is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Key
- Plantation
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Plantation is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation
- Continue List (11 more) ...
- Marathon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Plantation Key Colony
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Tavernier
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Flamingo
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Pigeon Key
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Sunset Point
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Thompson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Thompson is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
- Rock Harbor
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Rock Harbor is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Harbor
- Key Largo
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Key Largo Park
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Key Largo Park is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key Largo Park
- Newport
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Newport is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Layton) 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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