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Nearest Communities to Gooding,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.

Keep in mind 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.

Gooding is located in Gooding County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gooding County: Camas, Elmore, Jerome, Lincoln, Owyhee & Twin Falls.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 49 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Gooding. Of these communities, 43 are located in counties other than Gooding 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 Gooding (which is Gooding 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 Gooding

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

  • Gooding County   (where Gooding resides)
  • Blaine County
  • Camas County
    • County Website:   https://camascounty.id.gov/
    • County Seat for Camas:   Fairfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gooding   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gooding.
      • Punkin Corner
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Punkin Corner is located in Camas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Punkin Corner
      • Selby
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Selby is located in Camas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selby
      • Magic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Magic is located in Camas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magic
      • Blaine
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Blaine is located in Camas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blaine
      • Fairfield
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Macon
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Macon is located in Camas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macon
      • Rands
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Rands is located in Camas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rands
      • Soldier
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Soldier is located in Camas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soldier
      • Hill City
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Elmore County
  • Jerome County
    • County Website:   https://www.jeromecountyid.us/
    • County Seat for Jerome:   Jerome
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gooding   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gooding.
      • Jerome
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Hydra
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Hydra is located in Jerome County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hydra
      • Haytown ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Haytown is located in Jerome County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haytown
      • Barrymore
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Barrymore is located in Jerome County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barrymore
      • Falls City
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Falls City is located in Jerome County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls City
      • Sugar Loaf
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Sugar Loaf is located in Jerome County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Loaf
      • Perrine
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Perrine is located in Jerome County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perrine
      • Hunt
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Hunt is located in Jerome County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunt
  • Lincoln County
  • Twin Falls County
    • County Website:   https://twinfallscounty.org/
    • County Seat for Twin Falls:   Twin Falls
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gooding   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gooding.
      • Austin ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Austin is located in Twin Falls County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin
      • Abbey ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Abbey is located in Twin Falls County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbey
      • Buhl
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Cedar
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Cedar is located in Twin Falls County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar
      • Deep Creek
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Deep Creek is located in Twin Falls County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek
      • Peavey
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Peavey is located in Twin Falls County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peavey
      • Filer
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Filer is located in Twin Falls County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Filer
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,939 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Filer <3>
      • Curry
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Curry is located in Twin Falls County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curry
      • Fairview
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Fairview is located in Twin Falls County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Twin Falls
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Castleford
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Clover
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Knull
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Knull is located in Twin Falls County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knull
      • Godwin
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Godwin is located in Twin Falls County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Godwin

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 from Point A (ie- Gooding) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.