Nearest Communities to Garden City,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Garden City, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Garden City:
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.
Please note 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Garden City is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day 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 16 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Garden City. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Custer County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Garden City (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 Garden City
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Custer County (where Garden City resides)
- County Website: www.co.custer.id.us/
- County Seat for Custer: Challis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Custer County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Custer County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Custer County
- Nearest Communities to Garden City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Garden City.
- Challis
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Challis have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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 <5>
- Bayhorse ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayhorse
- Bayhorse is located in Custer County
- Ellis
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ellis have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellis
- Ellis is located in Custer County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ellis <5>
- Crystal ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south) - Clayton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayton
- Clayton is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clayton <5>
- Custer ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Custer
- Custer is located in Custer County
- Torreys
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest) - Bonanza ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
- Bonanza is located in Custer County
- Robinson Bar
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinson Bar have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Bar
- Robinson Bar is located in Custer County
- Goldburg
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Sunbeam
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Dickey
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast) - Casto
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Lemhi County
- County Seat for Lemhi: Salmon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Lemhi County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Lemhi County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Lemhi County
- Nearest Communities to Garden City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Garden City.
- May
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for May have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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 <5>
- Patterson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
- Patterson is located in Lemhi County
- Elk Bend
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Garden City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Garden City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.5074, Longitude: -114.2248 In this case, the coordinates for Garden City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Garden City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | 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. |