Nearest Communities to Grasmere,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Grasmere, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Grasmere:
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 from Grasmere.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Grasmere is located in Owyhee County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Owyhee County: Ada, Canyon, Elmore, Twin Falls, Elko (NV), Humboldt (NV) & Malheur (OR).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Grasmere. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Owyhee 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 Grasmere (which is Owyhee 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 Grasmere
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Owyhee County (where Grasmere resides)
- County Website: https://owyheecounty.net/
- County Seat for Owyhee: Murphy
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Grasmere ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Grasmere.
- Bengoechea Place
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Bengoechea Place is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengoechea Place
- Wickahoney ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Wickahoney was located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wickahoney
- Dans Place
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Dans Place is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dans Place
- Tindall ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Tindall was located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tindall
- James Place
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- James Place is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James Place
- Cottonwood ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Cottonwood was located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
- Wickahoney Crossing
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Wickahoney Crossing is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wickahoney Crossing
- Harvey Place
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Harvey Place is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvey Place
- Frost Place
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Frost Place is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost Place
- Buncel Place ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Buncel Place was located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buncel Place
- Dickens Place
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Dickens Place is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickens Place
- Riddle
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Riddle is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riddle
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- Comical Turn
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Comical Turn is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comical Turn
- China Hat
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- China Hat is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Hat
- Three Forks
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Three Forks is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Forks
- Collier Place
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Collier Place is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collier Place
- Miller Creek Settlement
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Dew Drop Place
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Dew Drop Place is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dew Drop Place
- Dry Forty
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Dry Forty is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Forty
- Hot Springs
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Hot Springs is also located in Owyhee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
- Elko County
- County Website: https://elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko (NV)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Grasmere ...
- Number One Settlement
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Number One Settlement is located in Elko County (NV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Number One Settlement
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- Grasmere) 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. |