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Nearest Communities to Defiance,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Defiance is located in McKinley County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McKinley County: Apache (AZ), Cibola, San Juan & Sandoval.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 59 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Defiance. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than McKinley 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 Defiance (which is McKinley 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 Defiance

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

  • McKinley County   (where Defiance resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.mckinley.nm.us/
    • County Seat for McKinley:   Gallup
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Defiance   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Defiance.
      • Twin Buttes
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
        • Twin Buttes is also located in McKinley County
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      • Mentmore ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Mentmore was located in McKinley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mentmore
      • Allison ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Allison was located in McKinley County
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      • Manuelito
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Manuelito is also located in McKinley County
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      • Red Rock
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Gallup
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Gamerco ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Gamerco was located in McKinley County
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      • Rock Springs
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Gibson ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Gibson was located in McKinley County
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      • Weaver ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Weaver was located in McKinley County
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      • Heaton ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Heaton was located in McKinley County
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      • Yah-ta-hey
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Yah-ta-hey is also located in McKinley County
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        • Rehoboth
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Sundance
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
          • Sundance is also located in McKinley County
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        • Zuni
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Tse Bonito
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Tse Bonito is also located in McKinley County
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        • Bread Springs
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Church Rock
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Twin Lakes
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Twin Lakes is also located in McKinley County
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        • Chi Chil Tah
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
          • Chi Chil Tah is also located in McKinley County
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        • Pinehaven
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Pinehaven is also located in McKinley County
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        • Vanderwagen
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • McCune
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
          • McCune is also located in McKinley County
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        • Navajo Wingate Village
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
          • Navajo Wingate Village is also located in McKinley County
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        • Fort Wingate
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Wingate
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
          • Wingate is also located in McKinley County
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        • Perea ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Perea was located in McKinley County
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        • Mexican Springs
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • McGaffey ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
          • McGaffey was located in McKinley County
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        • Iyanbito
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Iyanbito is also located in McKinley County
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        • Brimhall Nizhoni
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
          • Brimhall Nizhoni is also located in McKinley County
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        • Lower Nutria
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Lower Nutria is also located in McKinley County
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        • Upper Nutria
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Upper Nutria is also located in McKinley County
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        • Polich Place
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Polich Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Coyote Canyon
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Coyote Canyon is also located in McKinley County
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        • Basgal Place
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Basgal Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Merrill Place
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Merrill Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Ciniza
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Ciniza is also located in McKinley County
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        • Pinedale
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Pinedale is also located in McKinley County
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        • Tohatchi
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Navarre Place
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Navarre Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Black Rock
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Black Rock is also located in McKinley County
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        • Zuni Pueblo
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Zuni Pueblo is also located in McKinley County
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        • Grubisich Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Grubisich Place is also located in McKinley County
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        • Page
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Page is also located in McKinley County
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        • North Guam
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • North Guam is also located in McKinley County
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        • South Guam
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • South Guam is also located in McKinley County
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        • Navajo
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Coolidge ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Coolidge was located in McKinley County
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  • Apache 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Defiance) 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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