Nearest Communities to Ellis,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ellis, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ellis:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Ellis.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Ellis 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 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ellis. Of these communities, 10 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 Ellis (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 Ellis
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Custer County (where Ellis resides)
- County Website: www.co.custer.id.us/
- County Seat for Custer: Challis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ellis ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ellis.
- Challis
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- 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
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- 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
- Bayhorse ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayhorse
- Bayhorse is located in Custer County
- Goldburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goldburg have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldburg
- Goldburg is located in Custer County
- Lemhi County
- County Seat for Lemhi: Salmon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Ellis ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ellis.
- May
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for May have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May
- May is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for May <4>
- Elk Bend
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elk Bend have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Bend
- Elk Bend is located in Lemhi County
- Patterson
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
- Patterson is located in Lemhi County
- Williams Lake Resort
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Williams Lake Resort have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams Lake Resort
- Williams Lake Resort is located in Lemhi County
- Lemhi
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lemhi have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemhi
- Lemhi is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lemhi <4>
- Forney
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forney have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forney
- Forney is located in Lemhi County
- Tendoy
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Cobalt
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Blackbird
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blackbird have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackbird
- Blackbird is located in Lemhi County
- Yellowjacket
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yellowjacket have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellowjacket
- Yellowjacket is located in Lemhi County
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Ellis) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ellis. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.6919, Longitude: -114.0484 In this case, the coordinates for Ellis have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
<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. |