Nearest Communities to Cottonwood,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Cottonwood, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Cottonwood:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Cottonwood is historic,<2> 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 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cottonwood.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Cottonwood (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 Cottonwood
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Owyhee County (where Cottonwood resides)
- County Website: https://owyheecounty.net/
- County Seat for Owyhee: Murphy
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Cottonwood ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cottonwood.
- Wickahoney ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Wickahoney is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wickahoney
- Buncel Place ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Buncel Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buncel Place
- Wickahoney Crossing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Wickahoney Crossing is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wickahoney Crossing
- Harvey Place
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Harvey Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvey Place
- Comical Turn
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Comical Turn is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comical Turn
- Grasmere
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Grasmere is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grasmere
- Collier Place
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Collier Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collier Place
- Bengoechea Place
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Bengoechea Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengoechea Place
- Tindall ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Tindall is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tindall
- Dans Place
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Dans Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dans Place
- James Place
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- James Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James Place
- Frost Place
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Frost Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost Place
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- Dry Forty
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Dry Forty is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Forty
- Riddle
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Riddle is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riddle
- Dickens Place
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Dickens Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickens Place
- Hot Springs
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Hot Springs is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
- Dickshooter
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Dickshooter is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickshooter
- China Hat
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- China Hat is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Hat
- Three Forks
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Three Forks is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Forks
- Miller Creek Settlement
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Bruneau
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Doyle Place
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Doyle Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyle Place
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Cottonwood) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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 Cottonwood, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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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