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Nearest Communities to Avon,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 east contained birth and death records; the county to the north 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.<1>

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

Avon is located in Dare County.

The following 2 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dare County: Hyde & Tyrrell.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Avon. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Dare 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 Avon (which is Dare 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 Avon

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

  • Dare County   (where Avon resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.dare.nc.us/
    • County Seat for Dare:   Manteo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Avon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Avon.
      • Little Kinnakeet
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Kinnakeet have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Kinnakeet
        • Little Kinnakeet is located in Dare County
      • Buxton Landing
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buxton Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buxton Landing
        • Buxton Landing is located in Dare County
      • Buxton
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buxton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buxton
        • Buxton is located in Dare County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Buxton <4>
      • Frisco
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frisco have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frisco
        • Frisco is located in Dare County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Frisco <4>
      • Salvo
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salvo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salvo
        • Salvo is located in Dare County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Salvo <4>
      • Hatteras
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hatteras have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatteras
        • Hatteras is located in Dare County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hatteras <4>
      • Waves Landing
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Waves Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waves Landing
        • Waves Landing is located in Dare County
      • Steeple
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Steeple have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steeple
        • Steeple is located in Dare County
      • Waves
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Chicamacomico Life Saving Station ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Rodanthe
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rodanthe have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodanthe
        • Rodanthe is located in Dare County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rodanthe <4>
      • South Rodanthe
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Rodanthe have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Rodanthe
        • South Rodanthe is located in Dare County
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Fort Clark
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Clark have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Clark
          • Fort Clark is located in Dare County
        • Uncle Jimmys Landing
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Uncle Jimmys Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uncle Jimmys Landing
          • Uncle Jimmys Landing is located in Dare County
        • Stumpy Point
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stumpy Point have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stumpy Point
          • Stumpy Point is located in Dare County
        • Lake Worth
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake Worth have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Worth
          • Lake Worth is located in Dare County
  • Hyde County
    • County Seat for Hyde:   Swan Quarter
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Avon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Avon.
      • Widgen Woods
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Widgen Woods have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Widgen Woods
        • Widgen Woods is located in Hyde County
      • Engelhard
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Engelhard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Engelhard
        • Engelhard is located in Hyde County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Engelhard <4>
      • Middletown
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Middletown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown
        • Middletown is located in Hyde County
      • Jackson Dunes
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jackson Dunes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson Dunes
        • Jackson Dunes is located in Hyde County
      • Oyster Creek
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oyster Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oyster Creek
        • Oyster Creek is located in Hyde County
      • Sound Shores
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sound Shores have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sound Shores
        • Sound Shores is located in Hyde County
      • White Plains
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for White Plains. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Plains
        • White Plains is located in Hyde 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Avon) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Avon. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3521, Longitude: -75.5104       In this case, the coordinates for Avon have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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