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Nearest Communities to Plantation Key Colony,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 Plantation Key Colony.<1>

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

Plantation Key Colony 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 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Plantation Key Colony. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Monroe 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 Plantation Key Colony (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 Plantation Key Colony

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

  • Monroe County   (where Plantation Key Colony 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 Plantation Key Colony   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plantation Key Colony.
      • Tavernier
        (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Plantation Key
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
        • Plantation Key is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Key
      • Plantation
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
        • Plantation is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation
      • Sunset Point
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Thompson
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Thompson is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
      • Rock Harbor
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Rock Harbor is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Harbor
      • Islamorada
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Key Largo
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Key Largo Park
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Key Largo Park is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key Largo Park
      • Newport
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Newport is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport
      • Anglers Park
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Anglers Park is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anglers Park
      • Matecumbe Key
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (13 more) ...
        • Lower Matecumbe Beach
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Garden Cove
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Garden Cove is located in Monroe County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Cove
        • Jewfish
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Jewfish is located in Monroe County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jewfish
        • Craig ‑ Historic
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
          • Craig is located in Monroe County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig
        • Layton
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Layton is located in Monroe County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Layton
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 180 people
        • Carysfort Yacht Harbor
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • North Key Largo
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • North Key Largo is located in Monroe County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Key Largo
        • Long Key
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Dynamite Docks
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Dynamite Docks is located in Monroe County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dynamite Docks
        • Conch Key
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Flamingo
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Grayvik
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Grayvik is located in Monroe County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grayvik
        • Duck Key
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Miami-Dade County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Plantation Key Colony) 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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