Nearest Communities to Alder City,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Alder City, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Alder City:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 starting from Alder City.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Alder City is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Custer County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Custer County: Blaine, Boise, Butte, Elmore, Lemhi & Valley.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Alder City. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Custer 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 Alder City (which is Custer 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 Alder City
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Custer County (where Alder City resides)
- County Website: www.co.custer.id.us/
- County Seat for Custer: Challis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Custer County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Custer County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Custer County
- Nearest Communities to Alder City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alder City.
- Rothas
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest) - Leslie
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east) - Houston
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west) - Mackay
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mackay have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mackay
- Mackay is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 493 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mackay <5>
- Cliff ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west) - White Knob ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Knob have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Knob
- White Knob is located in Custer County
- Grouse
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south) - Lost River
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lost River have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost River
- Lost River is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2010 Census: 68 people
- Chilly
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest) - Dickey
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Butte County
- County Seat for Butte: Arco
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Butte County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Butte County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Butte County
- Nearest Communities to Alder City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alder City.
- Darlington
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Darlington have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darlington
- Darlington is located in Butte County
- Moore
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moore
- Moore is located in Butte County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moore <5>
- Lost River
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lost River have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost River
- Lost River is located in Butte County
- Antelope ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest) - Arco
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arco
- Arco is located in Butte County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 893 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arco <5>
- Era
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Clyde
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast) - Butte City
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Butte City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butte City
- Butte City is located in Butte County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 69 people
- Martin
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south) - Howe
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Howe have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howe
- Howe is located in Butte County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Howe <5>
- Berenice
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Sweet Sage ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sweet Sage have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Sage
- Sweet Sage is located in Butte County
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Alder City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Alder City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8724, Longitude: -113.5203 In this case, the coordinates for Alder City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Alder City, 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. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |