Nearest Communities to Challis,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Challis, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Challis:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.
Keep in mind 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.
Challis is located in Custer County and is the County Seat.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Custer County: Blaine, Boise, Butte, Elmore, Lemhi & Valley.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 16 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Challis. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Custer 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 Challis (which is Custer 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 Challis
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Custer County (where Challis resides)
- 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 Challis ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Challis.
- Garden City ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Garden City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden City
- Garden City is located in Custer County
- Bayhorse ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayhorse
- Bayhorse is located in Custer County
- Ellis
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ellis have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 <4>
- Crystal ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south) - Clayton
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayton
- Clayton is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clayton <4>
- Custer ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Custer
- Custer is located in Custer County
- Torreys
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest) - Bonanza ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
- Bonanza is located in Custer County
- Robinson Bar
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinson Bar have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Bar
- Robinson Bar is located in Custer County
- Goldburg
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Sunbeam
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Dickey
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast) - Casto
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Lemhi County
- 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 Challis ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Challis.
- May
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for May have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May
- May is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for May <4>
- Patterson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
- Patterson is located in Lemhi County
- Elk Bend
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
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- Challis) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Challis. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.5053, Longitude: -114.2282 In this case, the coordinates for Challis 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. |