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Nearest Communities to The Watson Place,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from The Watson Place.<1>

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

The Watson Place 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 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of The Watson Place. Of these communities, 24 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 The Watson Place (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 The Watson Place

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

  • Monroe County   (where The Watson Place 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 The Watson Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from The Watson Place.
      • Chatham
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
        • Chatham is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chatham
      • Walter Hamilton Place
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Leon Hamilton Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Leon Hamilton Place is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leon Hamilton Place
      • Trail City
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Trail City is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail City
      • Pinecrest
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Pinecrest is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinecrest
      • Trail Center
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Trail Center is located in Monroe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail Center
  • 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 The Watson Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from The Watson Place.
      • Chokoloskee
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Plantation Island
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Plantation Island is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Island
      • Ochopee
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Everglades City
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Carnestown
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Carnestown is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carnestown
      • Trailtown
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Trailtown is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trailtown
      • Copeland
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Lee Cypress
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Lee Cypress is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Cypress
      • Fakahatchee
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Fakahatchee is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fakahatchee
      • Jerome
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Jerome is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerome
      • Weavers Station
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Weavers Station is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weavers Station
      • Deep Lake
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Deep Lake is located in Collier County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Lake
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Dismal Key
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Dismal Key is located in Collier County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dismal Key
        • Rock Island
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Rock Island is located in Collier County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Island
        • Grocery Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Grocery Place is located in Collier County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grocery Place
        • Old Grove
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Old Grove is located in Collier County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Grove
        • Wagon Wheel
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Wagon Wheel is located in Collier County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagon Wheel
        • Turkey Foot
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Turkey Foot is located in Collier County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Foot
        • Goodland
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Royal Palm Hammock
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Royal Palm Hammock is located in Collier County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Palm Hammock
  • Miami-Dade 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- The Watson Place) 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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