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Nearest Communities to Banner,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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 from Banner.<1>

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

Banner is located in Boise County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Boise County: Ada, Custer, Elmore, Gem & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Banner. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Boise 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 Banner (which is Boise 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 Banner

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

  • Boise County   (where Banner resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.boise.id.us/
    • County Seat for Boise:   Idaho City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Banner   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Banner.
      • Lowman
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lowman have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowman
        • Lowman is located in Boise County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lowman <4>
      • Long Creek Summit Home
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Long Creek Summit Home have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Creek Summit Home
        • Long Creek Summit Home is located in Boise County
      • Tenmile Summer Home Area
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tenmile Summer Home Area have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile Summer Home Area
        • Tenmile Summer Home Area is located in Boise County
      • Graham ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Graham have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
        • Graham is located in Boise County
      • Washington Mill
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Washington Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Mill
        • Washington Mill is located in Boise County
      • Pioneerville
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pioneerville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneerville
        • Pioneerville is located in Boise County
      • Grimes Pass
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimes Pass
        • Grimes Pass is located in Boise County
      • Camp Creek Summer Home Area
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Camp Creek Summer Home Area have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Creek Summer Home Area
        • Camp Creek Summer Home Area is located in Boise County
      • Bear Creek Summer Home Area
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bear Creek Summer Home Area have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Creek Summer Home Area
        • Bear Creek Summer Home Area is located in Boise County
      • Centerville
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Centerville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
        • Centerville is located in Boise County
      • Idaho City
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • New Centerville
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Centerville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Centerville
        • New Centerville is located in Boise County
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Garden Valley
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Placerville
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Crouch
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crouch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crouch
          • Crouch is located in Boise County
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
        • Granite
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Granite have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
          • Granite is located in Boise County
        • Quartzburg
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Quartzburg. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quartzburg
          • Quartzburg is located in Boise County
        • Star Ranch Summer Home Area
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Star Ranch Summer Home Area have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star Ranch Summer Home Area
          • Star Ranch Summer Home Area is located in Boise County
        • Twin Springs
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twin Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Springs
          • Twin Springs is located in Boise County
        • Banks
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Banks have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banks
          • Banks is located in Boise County
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Banks <4>
  • Custer County
  • Elmore County
    • County Website:   www.elmorecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Elmore:   Mountain Home
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Banner   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Banner.
      • Alturas City ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alturas City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alturas City
        • Alturas City is located in Elmore County
      • Atlanta
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Rocky Bar ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Bar
        • Rocky Bar is located in Elmore County
      • Spanish Town ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spanish Town have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Town
        • Spanish Town is located in Elmore County

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 from Point A (ie- Banner) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Banner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.0199, Longitude: -115.5357       In this case, the coordinates for Banner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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