Nearest Communities to Blackbird,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Blackbird, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Blackbird:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 Blackbird.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Blackbird is located in Lemhi County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lemhi County: Butte, Clark, Custer, Idaho, Valley, Beaverhead (MT) & Ravalli (MT).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Blackbird. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Lemhi 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 Blackbird (which is Lemhi 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 Blackbird
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lemhi County (where Blackbird resides)
- County Seat for Lemhi: Salmon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Lemhi County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Lemhi County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Lemhi County
- Nearest Communities to Blackbird ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Blackbird.
- Cobalt
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobalt
- Cobalt is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cobalt <3>
- Leesburg
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast) - Forney
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest) - Williams Lake Resort
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Williams Lake Resort have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams Lake Resort
- Williams Lake Resort is located in Lemhi County
- Salmon
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salmon have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salmon
- Salmon is located in Lemhi County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,182 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Salmon <3>
- Yellowjacket
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yellowjacket have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellowjacket
- Yellowjacket is located in Lemhi County
- Shoup
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shoup have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoup
- Shoup is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shoup <3>
- Carmen
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carmen have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carmen
- Carmen is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carmen <3>
- Elk Bend
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast) - Baker
(23 miles [37 km] to the east) - North Fork
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fork
- North Fork is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for North Fork <3>
- Ulysses ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north) - Tendoy
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tendoy
- Tendoy is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tendoy <3>
- Custer County
- 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 Blackbird ...
- Ellis
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ellis have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellis
- Ellis is located in Custer County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ellis <3>
- Ellis
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- Blackbird) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blackbird. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.1133, Longitude: -114.2198 In this case, the coordinates for Blackbird 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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. |