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Nearest Communities to Mansford,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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

Mansford is located in Skagit County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Skagit County: Chelan, Island, Okanogan, San Juan, Snohomish & Whatcom.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 53 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mansford. Of these communities, 38 are located in counties other than Skagit 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 Mansford (which is Skagit 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 Mansford

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

  • Skagit County   (where Mansford resides)
  • Snohomish County
    • County Website:   https://snohomishcountywa.gov/
    • County Seat for Snohomish:   Everett
    • Note: The western boundary of the county is on Pudget Sound
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mansford   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mansford.
      • Andron
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Andron is located in Snohomish County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andron
      • Darrington
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Barco
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Barco is located in Snohomish County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barco
      • White Horse
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • White Horse is located in Snohomish County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Horse
      • Fortson
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Swede Heaven
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Tulker
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Tulker is located in Snohomish County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulker
      • Hazel
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Hazel is located in Snohomish County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazel
      • Silverton
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Bedal
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Bedal is located in Snohomish County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bedal
      • Rowan
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Rowan is located in Snohomish County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowan
      • Halterman
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Halterman is located in Snohomish County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halterman
      • Continue List   (25 more) ...
        • Verlot
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
          • Verlot is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verlot
        • Oso
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Robe
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Robe is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robe
        • Monte Cristo ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Cicero
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Cicero is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cicero
        • Trafton
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
          • Trafton is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trafton
        • Granite Falls
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Jordan
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Jordan is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan
        • Riverside
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Riverside is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
        • Arlington Heights
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Arlington Heights is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington Heights
        • Lake Bosworth
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Pilchuck
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Sobey
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Sobey is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sobey
        • Galena
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Galena is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
        • Lake Roesiger
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Lake Roesiger is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Roesiger
        • Lochsloy
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Arlington Junction
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Arlington Junction is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington Junction
        • Arlington
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Sisco Heights
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Sisco Heights is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sisco Heights
        • Bryant
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Forest Glade
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Getchell
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Hyland
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Sisco
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Sisco is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sisco
        • Edgecomb
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Edgecomb is located in Snohomish County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgecomb
  • Whatcom 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- Mansford) 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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