Nearest Communities to Big Water,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Big Water, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Big Water:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town 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.
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.
Big Water is located in Kane County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kane County: Coconino (AZ), Mohave (AZ), Garfield, Iron, San Juan & Washington.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 11 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Big Water. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Kane 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 Big Water (which is Kane 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 Big Water
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Kane County (where Big Water resides)
- County Seat for Kane: Kanab
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Utah
- Kane County
- From Family Search:
- State of Utah
- Kane County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Utah
- Kane County
- Nearest Communities to Big Water ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Water.
- Adairville ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adairville
- Adairville is located in Kane County
- Rockhouse ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west) - Shirts Fort ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Shirts Fort. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirts Fort
- Shirts Fort is located in Kane County
- Paria ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paria
- Paria is located in Kane County
- Coconino County
- County Website: www.co.coconino.az.us/
- County Seat for Coconino: Flagstaff (AZ)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Arizona
- Coconino County
- From Family Search:
- State of Arizona
- Coconino County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Arizona
- Coconino County
- Nearest Communities to Big Water ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Water.
- Wahweap
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast) - Chair Crossing
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chair Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chair Crossing
- Chair Crossing is located in Coconino County (AZ)
- Lee's Ferry
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee's Ferry
- Lee's Ferry is located in Coconino County (AZ)
- Lee's Ferry has also been known as:
- Little Colorado Station
- Saint's Ferry
- Page
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Page
- Page is located in Coconino County (AZ)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,516 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Page <5>
- Marble Canyon
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marble Canyon
- Marble Canyon is located in Coconino County (AZ)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marble Canyon <5>
- LeChee Chapter
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for LeChee Chapter have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LeChee Chapter
- LeChee Chapter is located in Coconino County (AZ)
- One Mile
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
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- Big Water) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Big Water. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0840, Longitude: -111.6645 |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |