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Nearest Communities to Canyon,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 starting from Canyon.<1>

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

Canyon is located in Randall County and is the County Seat.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Randall County: Armstrong, Carson, Castro, Deaf Smith, Oldham, Potter & Swisher.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Canyon. Of these communities, 31 are located in counties other than Randall 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 Canyon (which is Randall 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 Canyon

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

  • Randall County   (where Canyon resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.randallcounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Randall:   Canyon
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Canyon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Canyon.
      • Cleta
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
        • Cleta is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleta
      • Timbercreek Canyon
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Timbercreek Canyon is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timbercreek Canyon
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 479 people
      • Palisades
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Palisades is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palisades
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 367 people
      • Lake Tanglewood
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Lake Tanglewood is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Tanglewood
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 898 people
      • Ogg
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Ogg is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogg
      • Umbarger
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Zita
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Zita is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zita
  • Armstrong County
  • Carson County
  • Castro County
  • Deaf Smith County
  • Oldham County
  • Potter County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.potter.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Potter:   Amarillo
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Canyon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Canyon.
      • Soncy
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Amarillo
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Bushland
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Dumas Junction
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Dumas Junction is located in Potter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dumas Junction
      • Bishop Hills
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Bishop Hills is located in Potter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Hills
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 173 people
      • Cliffside
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Cliffside is located in Potter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cliffside
      • Pleasant Valley
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Pleasant Valley is located in Potter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
      • Pullman
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Pullman is located in Potter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pullman
      • Folsom
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Folsom is located in Potter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Folsom
      • Gentry
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Gentry is located in Potter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gentry
      • Mayer
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Mayer is located in Potter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayer
      • Juilliard
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Juilliard is located in Potter County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juilliard
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Saint Francis
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Saint Francis is located in Potter County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Francis
        • Gluck
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Gluck is located in Potter County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gluck
        • Chunky
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Chunky is located in Potter County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chunky
        • Boden
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Boden is located in Potter County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boden
  • Swisher County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Canyon) 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.