Nearest Communities to Horse Canyon,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Horse Canyon, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Horse Canyon:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 Horse Canyon.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Horse Canyon is located in Emery County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Emery County: Carbon, Grand, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Uintah & Wayne.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Horse Canyon. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Emery 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 Horse Canyon (which is Emery 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 Horse Canyon
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Emery County (where Horse Canyon resides)
- County Website: https://emery.utah.gov/
- County Seat for Emery: Castle Dale
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Horse Canyon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Horse Canyon.
- Cedar ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cedar is located in Emery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar
- Grassy ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Grassy is located in Emery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassy
- Woodside ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Woodside is located in Emery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodside
- Victor ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Victor is located in Emery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victor
- Desert Lake ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Desert Lake is located in Emery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert Lake
- Elmo
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Desert
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Desert is located in Emery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert
- Cleveland
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Shanty Town ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Shanty Town is located in Emery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shanty Town
- Carbon County
- County Website: https://www.carbon.utah.gov/
- County Seat for Carbon: Price
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Horse Canyon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Horse Canyon.
- Columbia
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Columbia is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
- Sunnydale
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Sunnydale is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnydale
- Sunnyside
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Columbia Junction
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Columbia Junction is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia Junction
- East Carbon City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- East Carbon City is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Carbon City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,608 people
- Former names for East Carbon City:
- Drager
- Dragerton
- East Carbon City has also been known as:
- East Carbon
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for East Carbon City <3>
- Upper Sunnyside
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Upper Sunnyside is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Sunnyside
- Bruin Point
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Bruin Point is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruin Point
- Sunnyside Junction
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Sunnyside Junction is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside Junction
- Kiz ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Kiz is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiz
- Wellington
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Harper ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Harper is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harper
- Former names for Harper:
- Minnie Maud
- Nine Mile
- Price
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
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- Wood Hill
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Wood Hill is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood Hill
- Carbonville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Carbonville is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbonville
- Kenilworth
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Kenilworth is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenilworth
- Spring Glen
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Spring Glen is located in Carbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Glen
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- Horse 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. |