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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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.<1>

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

Avon is located in Iron County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Iron County: Lincoln (NV), Beaver, Garfield, Kane & Washington.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Avon. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Iron 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 Iron 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.

  • Iron County   (where Avon resides)
    • County Website:   www.ironnet.org/
    • County Seat for Iron:   Parowan
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Avon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Avon.
      • Lund ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Iron Springs
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iron Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Springs
        • Iron Springs is located in Iron County
      • Zane ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Zane. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zane
        • Zane is located in Iron County
        • Zane has also been known as:
        • Sahara
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Zane
        • From Avon to Zane
      • Desert Mound ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Desert Mound have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert Mound
        • Desert Mound is located in Iron County
      • Latimer
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Latimer have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latimer
        • Latimer is located in Iron County
      • Halivah
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Halivah have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halivah
        • Halivah is located in Iron County
      • Beryl
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Iron Mountain
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iron Mountain have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Mountain
        • Iron Mountain is located in Iron County
      • Enoch
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Fort Johnson ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fort Johnson. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Johnson
        • Fort Johnson is located in Iron County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Fort Johnson
        • From Avon to Fort Johnson
      • Johnson's Fort ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Johnson's Fort. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson's Fort
        • Johnson's Fort is located in Iron County
        • Johnson's Fort has also been known as:
        • Johnson Springs
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Johnson's Fort
        • From Avon to Johnson's Fort
      • Newcastle
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (15 more) ...
        • Old Irontown
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Cedar City
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Beryl Junction
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Yale Crossing ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Hamiltons Fort
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamiltons Fort
          • Hamiltons Fort is located in Iron County
          • Former names for Hamiltons Fort:
          • Fort Hamblin
          • Fort Sidon
          • Fort Walker
          • Hambleton
          • Hamblin
          • Shirts Creek
          • Sidon
          • Hamiltons Fort has also been known as:
          • Hamilton Fort
          • Hamilton
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Hamiltons Fort
          • From Avon to Hamiltons Fort
        • Summit
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Little Pinto ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Little Pinto. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Pinto
          • Little Pinto is located in Iron County
          • Little Pinto has also been known as:
          • Page Ranch
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Little Pinto
          • From Avon to Little Pinto
        • Cedar Highlands
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Fort Kanarra ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fort Kanarra. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Kanarra
          • Fort Kanarra is located in Iron County
          • Google driving directions:
          • From your current location to Fort Kanarra
          • From Avon to Fort Kanarra
        • Kanarraville
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kanarraville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanarraville
          • Kanarraville is located in Iron County
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 410 people
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kanarraville <5>
        • Heist ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heist have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heist
          • Heist is located in Iron County
        • Parowan Adobe Fort ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Parowan
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Wheatgrass
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wheatgrass have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatgrass
          • Wheatgrass is located in Iron County
        • Brian Head
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Beaver County
    • County Website:   www.beaver.state.ut.us/
    • County Seat for Beaver:   Beaver
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Avon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Avon.
      • Thermo ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Thermo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thermo
        • Thermo is located in Beaver County
      • Laho
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Laho. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laho
        • Laho is located in Beaver County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Laho
        • From Avon to Laho
  • Washington 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 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: 37.8971, Longitude: -113.3525       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>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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