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Nearest Communities to Lower Matecumbe Beach,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Lower Matecumbe Beach.<1>

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

Lower Matecumbe Beach 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 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lower Matecumbe Beach.

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 Lower Matecumbe Beach (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 Lower Matecumbe Beach

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

  • Monroe County   (where Lower Matecumbe Beach resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.monroe.fl.us/
    • County Seat for Monroe:   Key West
    • Note: The Gulf of Mexico lies to the west
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lower Matecumbe Beach   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lower Matecumbe Beach.
      • Matecumbe Key
        (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Craig ‑ Historic
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Craig have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig
        • Craig is located in Monroe County
      • Layton
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Layton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Layton
        • Layton is located in Monroe County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 180 people
      • Long Key
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Islamorada
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Conch Key
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Duck Key
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Plantation Key
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plantation Key have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Key
        • Plantation Key is located in Monroe County
      • Plantation
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plantation have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation
        • Plantation is located in Monroe County
      • Plantation Key Colony
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plantation Key Colony have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Key Colony
        • Plantation Key Colony is located in Monroe County
      • Valhalla
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Valhalla have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valhalla
        • Valhalla is located in Monroe County
      • Tavernier
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Continue List   (12 more) ...
        • Key Colony Beach
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Sunset Point
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Thompson
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Thompson have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
          • Thompson is located in Monroe County
        • Marathon Shores
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Rock Harbor
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock Harbor have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Harbor
          • Rock Harbor is located in Monroe County
        • Flamingo
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Key Largo
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Marathon
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Key Largo Park
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Key Largo Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key Largo Park
          • Key Largo Park is located in Monroe County
        • Newport
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Newport have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport
          • Newport is located in Monroe County
        • Pigeon Key
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Anglers Park
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anglers Park
          • Anglers Park is located in Monroe 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lower Matecumbe Beach) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lower Matecumbe Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 24.8501, Longitude: -80.7345       In this case, the coordinates for Lower Matecumbe Beach 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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