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Nearest Communities to Trail Center,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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 starting from Trail Center.<1>

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


Trail Center 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 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Trail Center. Of these communities, 26 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 Trail Center (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 Trail Center

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

  • Monroe County   (where Trail Center 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 Trail Center   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Trail Center.
      • Pinecrest
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Pinecrest is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinecrest
      • Trail City
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Trail City is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail City
      • Chatham
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Chatham is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chatham
      • The Watson Place
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • The Watson Place is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Watson Place
      • Walter Hamilton Place
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Leon Hamilton Place
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Leon Hamilton Place is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leon Hamilton Place
  • Broward County
  • Collier County
    • County Website:   https://www.colliercountyfl.gov/
    • County Seat for Collier:   Naples
    • Note: The Gulf of Mexico lies to the west
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Trail Center   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Trail Center.
      • Trailtown
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Trailtown is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trailtown
      • Turkey Foot
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Turkey Foot is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Foot
      • Wagon Wheel
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Wagon Wheel is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagon Wheel
      • Ochopee
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Chokoloskee
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Plantation Island
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Plantation Island is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Island
  • Miami-Dade County
    • County Website:   https://www.miamidade.gov/
    • County Seat for Miami-Dade:   Miami
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Trail Center   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Trail Center.
      • Fortymile Bend
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Fortymile Bend is located in Miami-Dade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fortymile Bend
      • Smallpox Tommies Old Place
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Mart Law Seminole Village
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Pops Hammock Seminole Village
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Tenmile Corner
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Tenmile Corner is located in Miami-Dade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile Corner
      • Frog City
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Frog City is located in Miami-Dade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frog City
      • Coopertown
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Hammocks
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Hammocks is located in Miami-Dade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammocks
      • The Hammocks
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • The Hammocks is located in Miami-Dade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Hammocks
      • Inlikita
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Inlikita is located in Miami-Dade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inlikita
      • Kendale Lakes
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Kendale Lakes is located in Miami-Dade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendale Lakes
      • Kendall Lakes
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Kendall Lakes is located in Miami-Dade County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendall Lakes
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Tamiami
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Tamiami is located in Miami-Dade County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tamiami
        • The Crossings
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • The Crossings is located in Miami-Dade County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Crossings
        • Lindgren Acres
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Lindgren Acres is located in Miami-Dade County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindgren Acres
        • Aladdin City
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Aladdin City is located in Miami-Dade County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aladdin City
        • Country Walk
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Country Walk is located in Miami-Dade County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Walk
        • Redland
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Silver Palm Place
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Silver Palm Place is located in Miami-Dade County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Palm Place

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- Trail Center) 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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