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Nearest Communities to Dickshooter,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 Dickshooter.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Dickshooter 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 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Dickshooter. Of these communities, 1 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 Dickshooter (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 Dickshooter

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

  • Owyhee County   (where Dickshooter resides)
    • County Website:   www.owyheecounty.net/
    • County Seat for Owyhee:   Murphy
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dickshooter   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Dickshooter.
      • Dry Forty
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dry Forty have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Forty
        • Dry Forty is located in Owyhee County
      • Rickard Crossing
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rickard Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rickard Crossing
        • Rickard Crossing is located in Owyhee County
      • Collier Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Collier Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collier Place
        • Collier Place is located in Owyhee County
      • Pleasant Valley Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Valley Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley Place
        • Pleasant Valley Place is located in Owyhee County
      • Four Corners
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Four Corners have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Corners
        • Four Corners is located in Owyhee County
      • Comical Turn
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Comical Turn have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comical Turn
        • Comical Turn is located in Owyhee County
      • Harvey Place
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harvey Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvey Place
        • Harvey Place is located in Owyhee County
      • Riddle
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Riddle. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riddle
        • Riddle is located in Owyhee County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Riddle
        • From Dickshooter to Riddle
      • Cottonwood ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cottonwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
        • Cottonwood is located in Owyhee County
      • Wickahoney ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Buncel Place ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Triangle
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Triangle have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triangle
        • Triangle is located in Owyhee County
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Fairylawn
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairylawn have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairylawn
          • Fairylawn is located in Owyhee County
        • Wickahoney Crossing
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wickahoney Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wickahoney Crossing
          • Wickahoney Crossing is located in Owyhee County
        • Miller Creek Settlement
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miller Creek Settlement have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller Creek Settlement
          • Miller Creek Settlement is located in Owyhee County
        • Cliffs
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Crill Place
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crill Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crill Place
          • Crill Place is located in Owyhee County
  • Malheur County

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Dickshooter) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dickshooter. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.3915, Longitude: -116.5013    
<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>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.




 

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