Nearest Communities to White Canyon,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to White Canyon, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for White Canyon:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 starting from White Canyon.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of White Canyon is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day 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 11 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of White Canyon. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than San Juan County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for White 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 White Canyon
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- San Juan County (where White Canyon resides)
- County Website: https://sanjuancountyut.gov/
- County Seat for San Juan: Monticello
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to White Canyon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from White Canyon.
- Ducket Crossing
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Ducket Crossing is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ducket Crossing
- Gravel Crossing
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Gravel Crossing is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravel Crossing
- Soldier Crossing
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Soldier Crossing is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soldier Crossing
- Fry Canyon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Fry Canyon is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fry Canyon
- Halls Crossing
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Garfield County
- County Website: https://www.garfield.utah.gov/
- County Seat for Garfield: Panguitch
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to White Canyon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from White Canyon.
- Hite ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Three Forks
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Three Forks is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Forks
- Ticaboo
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Ticaboo is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ticaboo
- Eggnog ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Eggnog is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eggnog
- Eagle City ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Eagle City is located in Garfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle City
- Kane County
- County Website: https://kane.utah.gov/
- County Seat for Kane: Kanab
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to White Canyon ...
- Bullfrog
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- White Canyon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about White Canyon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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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