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Nearest Communities to Garden Valley,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.

Garden Valley is located in Boise County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Boise County: Ada, Custer, Elmore, Gem & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Garden Valley. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Boise 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 Garden Valley (which is Boise 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 Valley

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

  • Boise County   (where Garden Valley resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.boisecounty.us/
    • County Seat for Boise:   Idaho City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Garden Valley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Garden Valley.
      • Crouch
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
        • Crouch is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crouch
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
      • Grimes Pass
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Banks
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Quartzburg
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Granite
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Granite is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
      • Placerville
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Pioneerville
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Pioneerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneerville
      • Big Eddy
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Big Eddy is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Eddy
      • Centerville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Centerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
      • Star Ranch Summer Home Area
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • New Centerville
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • New Centerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Centerville
      • Gardena
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Gardena is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardena
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Brownlee
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Lowman
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Washington Mill
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Washington Mill is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Mill
        • Tenmile Summer Home Area
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Horseshoe Bend
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Long Creek Summit Home
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Idaho City
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Banner
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Banner is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banner
        • Howell ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Howell is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howell
  • Gem County
  • Valley County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Garden Valley) 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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