Nearest Communities to Clayton,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Clayton, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Clayton:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Clayton.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Clayton is located in Custer County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Custer County: Blaine, Boise, Butte, Elmore, Lemhi & Valley.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Clayton. Of these communities, 2 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 Clayton (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 Clayton
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Custer County (where Clayton 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 Clayton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Clayton.
- Crystal ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east) - Torreys
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west) - Bayhorse ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayhorse
- Bayhorse is located in Custer County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Bayhorse
- From Clayton to Bayhorse
- Robinson Bar
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- 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
- Sunbeam
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west) - Bonanza ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
- Bonanza is located in Custer County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Bonanza
- From Clayton to Bonanza
- Custer ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Custer
- Custer is located in Custer County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Custer
- From Clayton to Custer
- Challis
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Challis have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Challis
- Challis is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,066 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Challis <4>
- Garden City ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] 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
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- Obsidian
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest) - Dickey
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Dickey. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickey
- Dickey is located in Custer County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Dickey
- From Clayton to Dickey
- Lower Stanley
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Stanley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Stanley
- Lower Stanley is located in Custer County
- Stanley
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stanley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
- Stanley is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stanley <4>
- Chilly
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast) - Casto
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Obsidian
- Blaine County
- County Website: www.co.blaine.id.us/
- County Seat for Blaine: Hailey
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Blaine County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Blaine County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Blaine County
- Nearest Communities to Clayton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Clayton.
- Boulder ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder
- Boulder is located in Blaine County
- Boulder has also been known as:
- Boulder Basin
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Boulder
- From Clayton to Boulder
- Galena
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
- Galena is located in Blaine County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Galena
- From Clayton to Galena
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Clayton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Clayton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.2592, Longitude: -114.4003 |
| <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. |
| <5> | 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. |