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Nearest Communities to Fry Canyon,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 from Fry Canyon.<1>

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

Fry Canyon is located in San Juan County.

The following 13 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of San Juan County: Apache (AZ), Coconino (AZ), Navajo (AZ), Dolores (CO), Montezuma (CO), Montrose (CO), San Miguel (CO), San Juan (NM), Emery, Garfield, Grand, Kane & Wayne.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 10 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fry Canyon. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than San Juan 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 Fry Canyon (which is San Juan 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 Fry Canyon

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

  • San Juan County   (where Fry Canyon resides)
    • County Website:   https://sanjuancountyut.gov/
    • County Seat for San Juan:   Monticello
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Fry Canyon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Fry Canyon.
      • Soldier Crossing
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Soldier Crossing is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soldier Crossing
      • Gravel Crossing
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Gravel Crossing is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravel Crossing
      • Ducket Crossing
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Ducket Crossing is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ducket Crossing
      • White Canyon ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • White Canyon is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Canyon
      • Clay Hills Crossing
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Clay Hills Crossing is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clay Hills Crossing
      • Indian Village
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Indian Village is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
      • Piute Farms ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Piute Farms is located in San Juan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piute Farms
  • Garfield 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- Fry 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.
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