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Nearest Communities to Marathon Shores,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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 Marathon Shores.<1>

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

Marathon Shores 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 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Marathon Shores.

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 Marathon Shores (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 Marathon Shores

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

  • Monroe County   (where Marathon Shores 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 Marathon Shores   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Marathon Shores.
      • Key Colony Beach
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Marathon
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Valhalla
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
        • 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
      • Pigeon Key
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Duck Key
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Conch Key
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Long Key
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Layton
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • 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
      • Craig ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • 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
      • Big Pine Key
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Big Pine
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Big Pine have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Pine
        • Big Pine is located in Monroe County
      • Lower Matecumbe Beach
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Matecumbe Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Matecumbe Beach
        • Lower Matecumbe Beach is located in Monroe County
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Little Torch Key
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Matecumbe Key
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Ramrod Key
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Summerland Key
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Cudjoe Key
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Flamingo
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Islamorada
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Pirates Cove
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pirates Cove have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pirates Cove
          • Pirates Cove is located in Monroe 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 from Point A (ie- Marathon Shores) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Marathon Shores. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 24.7249, Longitude: -81.0497    
<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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