Nearest Communities to Dickens Place,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Dickens Place, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Dickens Place:
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 from Dickens Place.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Dickens Place is located in 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 Dickens Place. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Owyhee 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 Dickens 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 Dickens Place
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Owyhee County (where Dickens Place resides)
- County Website: https://owyheecounty.net/
- County Seat for Owyhee: Murphy
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Dickens Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Dickens Place.
- Frost Place
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Frost Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost Place
- China Hat
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- China Hat is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Hat
- Three Forks
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Three Forks is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Forks
- Riddle
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Riddle is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riddle
- Dew Drop Place
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Dew Drop Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dew Drop Place
- Tindall ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Tindall is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tindall
- Miller Creek Settlement
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Dans Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Dans Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dans Place
- Bengoechea Place
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Bengoechea Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengoechea Place
- James Place
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- James Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James Place
- Grasmere
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Grasmere is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grasmere
- Wickahoney ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Wickahoney is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wickahoney
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Cottonwood ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Cottonwood is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
- Harvey Place
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Harvey Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvey Place
- Buncel Place ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Buncel Place is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buncel Place
- Wickahoney Crossing
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Wickahoney Crossing is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wickahoney Crossing
- Comical Turn
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Comical Turn is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comical Turn
- Dry Forty
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Dry Forty is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Forty
- Elko County
- County Website: https://elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko (NV)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Dickens Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Dickens Place.
- Number One Settlement
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Number One Settlement is located in Elko County (NV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Number One Settlement
- Owyhee
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Mountain City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Bueasta ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Bueasta is located in Elko County (NV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bueasta
- Rowland ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Rowland is located in Elko County (NV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowland
- Patsville ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Patsville is located in Elko County (NV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patsville
- Rio Tinto ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Rio Tinto is located in Elko County (NV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Tinto
- Point of Rocks
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Point of Rocks is located in Elko County (NV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point of Rocks
- White Rock ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- White Rock is located in Elko County (NV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock
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 from Point A (ie- Dickens Place) 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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