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Nearest Communities to Gills Rock,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 east 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.

Gills Rock is located in Door County.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 40 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Gills Rock. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Door 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 Gills Rock (which is Door 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 Gills Rock

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

  • Door County   (where Gills Rock resides)
  • Delta County
    • County Website:   https://deltacountymi.gov/
    • County Seat for Delta:   Escanaba (MI)
    • Note: Green Bay lies to the southwest and Lake Michigan to the southeast
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gills Rock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gills Rock.
      • Island View
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Island View is located in Delta County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island View
      • Ford River
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Fairport
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Fairport is located in Delta County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairport
      • Sac Bay
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Sac Bay is located in Delta County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sac Bay
      • Stonington
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Stonington is located in Delta County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonington
  • Menominee County
    • County Website:   https://www.menomineecounty.com/
    • County Seat for Menominee:   Menominee (MI)
    • Note: Green Bay lies to the south
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gills Rock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gills Rock.
      • Cedar River
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Fox
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Fox is located in Menominee County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox
      • Arthur Bay
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Beach Grove
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Beach Grove is located in Menominee County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beach Grove
      • Johnson Landing
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Johnson Landing is located in Menominee County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson Landing
      • Ingallston
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Ingallston is located in Menominee County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingallston
      • Palestine
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Palestine is located in Menominee County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palestine
      • Gourley
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Gourley is located in Menominee County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gourley
      • Carbondale
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Hansen
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Hansen is located in Menominee County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hansen
      • Wallace
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Hannahville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Hannahville is located in Menominee County (MI)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannahville
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Birch Creek
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Eagles Nest
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Eagles Nest is located in Menominee County (MI)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagles Nest
        • Ingalls
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Ingalls is located in Menominee County (MI)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingalls
        • Stephenson
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Daggett
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Daggett is located in Menominee County (MI)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daggett
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 242 people
        • Kew
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)

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- Gills Rock) 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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