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Nearest Communities to Carothers Place,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>

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


Although our information shows that the community of Carothers Place<2> is historic,<3> it would have been located within present day Owyhee County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Owyhee County: Ada, Canyon, Elmore, Twin Falls, Elko (NV), Humboldt (NV) & Malheur (OR).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Carothers Place. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Owyhee County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<4> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Carothers Place (which is Owyhee 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 Carothers Place

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

  • Owyhee County   (where Carothers Place resides)
    • County Website:   https://owyheecounty.net/
    • County Seat for Owyhee:   Murphy
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Carothers Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Carothers Place.
      • Spiry Place
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Spiry Place is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spiry Place
      • Crill Place
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Crill Place is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crill Place
      • Doyle Place
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Doyle Place is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyle Place
      • Oreana
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Oreana is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oreana
      • Triangle
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Triangle is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triangle
      • Empire City ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Empire City was located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire City
      • Sinker ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Sinker was located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sinker
      • Morgan Place
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Morgan Place is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan Place
      • Silver City
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Flint
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Flint is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint
      • Grand View
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Telegraph Hill
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Telegraph Hill is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telegraph Hill
      • Continue List   (14 more) ...
        • Dewey
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Dewey is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewey
        • Little Sugar Loaf
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Little Sugar Loaf is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Sugar Loaf
        • Slacks Corner
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Slacks Corner is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slacks Corner
        • De Lamar ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • De Lamar was located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Lamar
        • Democrat
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Democrat is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Democrat
        • Murphy
          (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Collier Place
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Collier Place is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collier Place
        • Reynolds
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Reynolds is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynolds
        • Comical Turn
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Comical Turn is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comical Turn
        • South Mountain
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • South Mountain is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Mountain
        • Petersons Crossing
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Petersons Crossing is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersons Crossing
        • Guffey
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Guffey is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guffey
        • Dry Forty
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Dry Forty is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Forty
        • Buncel Place ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Buncel Place was located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buncel Place
  • Ada 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Carothers Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Carothers Place may originally have been Carother's Place. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Carothers Place might be written as Carother Place. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Carothers Place.
<3>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 Carothers Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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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