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Nearest Communities to Cream Can Junction,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.


Cream Can Junction is located in Blaine County.

The following 10 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Blaine County: Bingham, Boise, Butte, Camas, Cassia, Custer, Elmore, Lincoln, Minidoka & Power.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cream Can Junction. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Blaine 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 Cream Can Junction (which is Blaine 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 Cream Can Junction

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

  • Blaine County   (where Cream Can Junction resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.blaine.id.us/
    • County Seat for Blaine:   Hailey
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cream Can Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cream Can Junction.
      • Hawley
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Hawley is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawley
      • De Woff
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • De Woff is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Woff
      • Wapi
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Wapi is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wapi
      • Smith Springs
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Smith Springs is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Springs
  • Bingham County
    • County Website:   https://www.binghamid.gov/
    • County Seat for Bingham:   Blackfoot
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cream Can Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cream Can Junction.
      • Coffee Point
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Coffee Point is located in Bingham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coffee Point
      • Aberdeen
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Fingal
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Fingal is located in Bingham County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fingal
  • Butte County
  • Cassia County
    • County Website:   https://www.cassia.gov/
    • County Seat for Cassia:   Burley
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cream Can Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cream Can Junction.
      • Jackson
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Jackson is located in Cassia County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson
      • Raft River
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Raft River is located in Cassia County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raft River
      • Cotterel
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Cotterel is located in Cassia County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotterel
  • Lincoln County
  • Minidoka County
    • County Website:   https://www.minidoka.id.us/
    • County Seat for Minidoka:   Rupert
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cream Can Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cream Can Junction.
      • Minidoka
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Norland
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Norland is located in Minidoka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norland
      • Adelaide
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Adelaide is located in Minidoka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adelaide
      • Acequia
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Acequia is located in Minidoka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acequia
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 130 people
      • Rupert
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Travers
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Travers is located in Minidoka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Travers
      • Myers
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Myers is located in Minidoka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myers
      • Schow
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Schow is located in Minidoka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schow
      • Amalga
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Amalga is located in Minidoka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amalga
      • Paul
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Paul is located in Minidoka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paul
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,464 people
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  • Power County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.power.id.us/
    • County Seat for Power:   American Falls
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cream Can Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cream Can Junction.
      • Quigley
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Quigley is located in Power County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quigley
      • Fairview
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Fairview is located in Power County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Neeley
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Neeley is located in Power County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neeley
      • American Falls
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Lone Rock
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Lone Rock is located in Power County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Rock

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cream Can Junction) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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.
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