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Nearest Communities to Galena,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Galena.<1>

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

Galena 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 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Galena. Of these communities, 11 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 Galena (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 Galena

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

  • Blaine County   (where Galena resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.blaine.id.us/
    • County Seat for Blaine:   Hailey
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Galena   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Galena.
      • Boulder ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Easley Hot Springs
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Easley Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easley Hot Springs
        • Easley Hot Springs is located in Blaine County
      • Cathedral Pines
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cathedral Pines have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cathedral Pines
        • Cathedral Pines is located in Blaine County
      • Sawtooth City
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sawtooth City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawtooth City
        • Sawtooth City is located in Blaine County
      • Ketchum
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Sun Valley
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Elkhorn Village
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkhorn Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Village
        • Elkhorn Village is located in Blaine County
      • Gimlet
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gimlet have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gimlet
        • Gimlet is located in Blaine County
      • Clarendon Hot Springs
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clarendon Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarendon Hot Springs
        • Clarendon Hot Springs is located in Blaine County
      • Triumph
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Triumph. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triumph
        • Triumph is located in Blaine County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Triumph
        • From Galena to Triumph
      • Barite
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Barite have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barite
        • Barite is located in Blaine County
      • Bullion
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bullion have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullion
        • Bullion is located in Blaine County
      • Hailey
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hailey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hailey
        • Hailey is located in Blaine County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,887 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hailey <4>
  • Camas County
    • County Seat for Camas:   Fairfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Galena   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Galena.
      • Carrietown
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carrietown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrietown
        • Carrietown is located in Camas County
      • Indian Head Rock
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Head Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Head Rock
        • Indian Head Rock is located in Camas County
  • Custer County
    • County Website:   www.co.custer.id.us/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Challis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Galena   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Galena.
      • Obsidian
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Obsidian have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Obsidian
        • Obsidian is located in Custer County
      • Robinson Bar
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinson Bar have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Bar
        • Robinson Bar is located in Custer County
      • Torreys
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Torreys have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreys
        • Torreys is located in Custer County
      • Sunbeam
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunbeam have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunbeam
        • Sunbeam is located in Custer County
      • Stanley
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stanley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
        • Stanley is located in Custer County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stanley <4>
      • Lower Stanley
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Stanley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Stanley
        • Lower Stanley is located in Custer County
      • Clayton
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Elmore 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 from Point A (ie- Galena) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Galena. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8718, Longitude: -114.6554    
<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.
<5>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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