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Nearest Communities to Gay,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 Gay.<1>

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

Gay is located in Keweenaw County.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 91 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Gay. Of these communities, 67 are located in counties other than Keweenaw 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 Gay (which is Keweenaw 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 Gay

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

  • Keweenaw County   (where Gay resides)
  • Baraga County
  • Houghton County
    • County Website:   https://www.houghtoncounty.net/
    • County Seat for Houghton:   Houghton
    • Note: Lake Superior lies to the north and Whitefish Bay to the east
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gay   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gay.
      • Traverse Bay
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Copper City
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Gregoryville
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Gregoryville is located in Houghton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregoryville
      • Lake Linden
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Centennial
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Hubbell
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Kearsarge
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Laurium
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Phillipsville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Phillipsville is located in Houghton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillipsville
      • Wolverine
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Calumet
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Centennial Heights
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Continue List   (46 more) ...
        • Osceola
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
          • Osceola is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
        • Dreamland
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Rabbit Bay
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Rabbit Bay is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rabbit Bay
        • Lakeview
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Quincy Mill
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
          • Quincy Mill is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quincy Mill
        • Swedetown
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
          • Swedetown is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swedetown
        • Tamarack
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • West Tamarack
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
          • West Tamarack is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Tamarack
        • Mason
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Senter
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Senter is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Senter
        • Dollar Bay
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Point Mills
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
          • Point Mills is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Mills
        • Boston
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Pilgrim
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
          • Pilgrim is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim
        • Paavola
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Sunshine Beach
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Sunshine Beach is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Beach
        • Arcadian
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Arcadian is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcadian
        • Lewer Pewabic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Lewer Pewabic is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewer Pewabic
        • Pewabic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Pewabic is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pewabic
        • Ripley
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Ripley is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripley
        • Hurontown
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Jacobsville
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • White City
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
          • White City is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
        • Franklin Mine
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Franklin Mine is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin Mine
        • Houghton
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Chassell
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Dodgeville
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Portage Entry
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Hancock
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Superior
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
          • Superior is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Superior
        • Atlantic Mine
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Atlantic Mine is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atlantic Mine
        • Klingville
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Klingville is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klingville
        • Oskar
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Schmidt Corner
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
          • Schmidt Corner is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schmidt Corner
        • Baltic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Mill Mine Junction
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Mill Mine Junction is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Mine Junction
        • South Range
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Liminga
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Liminga is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liminga
        • Trimountain
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Trimountain is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trimountain
        • Champion Mine
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Painesdale
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Redridge
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Salmon Trout
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Salmon Trout is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salmon Trout
        • Askel
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Askel is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Askel
        • Tapiola
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Tapiola is located in Houghton County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tapiola
        • Beacon Hill
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Marquette 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Gay) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.