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Nearest Communities to Bennington,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 from Bennington.<1>

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

Bennington is located in Bear Lake County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bear Lake County: Caribou, Franklin, Rich (UT) & Lincoln (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 64 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bennington. Of these communities, 33 are located in counties other than Bear Lake 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 Bennington (which is Bear Lake 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 Bennington

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

  • Bear Lake County   (where Bennington resides)
  • Caribou County
    • County Website:   https://www.cariboucounty.us/
    • County Seat for Caribou:   Soda Springs
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bennington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bennington.
      • Rose
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Rose is located in Caribou County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose
      • Bench
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Lago
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Lago is located in Caribou County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lago
      • Soda Springs
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Niter
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Niter is located in Caribou County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niter
      • Grace
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Conda
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Conda is located in Caribou County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conda
      • Telluride
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Telluride is located in Caribou County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telluride
      • Alexander
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Alexander is located in Caribou County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alexander
      • China Hill
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • China Hill is located in Caribou County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Hill
      • Turner
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Turner is located in Caribou County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turner
      • Meadowville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Meadowville is located in Caribou County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowville
      • Central
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Central is located in Caribou County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central
      • Talmage
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Talmage is located in Caribou County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talmage
  • Franklin County
    • County Website:   https://www.franklincountyidaho.org/
    • County Seat for Franklin:   Preston
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bennington   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bennington.
      • Cleveland
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Cleveland is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
      • Mound Valley
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Mound Valley is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mound Valley
      • Thatcher
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Mink Creek
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Mink Creek is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mink Creek
      • Glendale
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Glendale is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale
      • Treasureton
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Treasureton is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Treasureton
      • Mapleton
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Mapleton is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mapleton
      • Riverdale
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Riverdale is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale
  • Rich County
  • Lincoln County

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- Bennington) 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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