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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 starting 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:   https://www.boisecounty.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)
      • Long Creek Summit Home
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Tenmile Summer Home Area
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Graham ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Graham is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
      • Washington Mill
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Washington Mill is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Mill
      • Pioneerville
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Pioneerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneerville
      • Grimes Pass
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Grimes Pass is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimes Pass
      • Camp Creek Summer Home Area
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Bear Creek Summer Home Area
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Centerville
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Centerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
      • Idaho City
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • New Centerville
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • New Centerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Centerville
      • 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)
          • Crouch is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crouch
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
        • Granite
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Granite is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
        • Quartzburg
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Quartzburg is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quartzburg
        • Star Ranch Summer Home Area
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Twin Springs
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Twin Springs is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Springs
        • Banks
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Custer County
  • Elmore County
    • County Website:   https://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)
        • Alturas City is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alturas City
      • Atlanta
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Rocky Bar ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Rocky Bar is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Bar
      • Spanish Town ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Spanish Town is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Town

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' 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. 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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