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Nearest Communities to Grimes Pass,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Grimes Pass 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 Grimes Pass. Of these communities, 13 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 Grimes Pass (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 Grimes Pass

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

  • Boise County   (where Grimes Pass resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.boisecounty.us/
    • County Seat for Boise:   Idaho City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Grimes Pass   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Grimes Pass.
      • Garden Valley
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Pioneerville
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Pioneerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneerville
      • Crouch
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Crouch is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crouch
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
      • Granite
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Granite is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
      • Placerville
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Quartzburg
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Centerville
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Centerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
      • Star Ranch Summer Home Area
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • New Centerville
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • New Centerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Centerville
      • Washington Mill
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Washington Mill is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Mill
      • Lowman
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Tenmile Summer Home Area
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Banks
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Long Creek Summit Home
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Idaho City
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Banner
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
          • Banner is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banner
        • Big Eddy
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Big Eddy is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Eddy
        • Gardena
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
          • Gardena is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardena
        • Horseshoe Bend
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Brownlee
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Howell ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Howell is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howell
        • Twin Springs
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
          • Twin Springs is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Springs
        • Graham ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Graham is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
  • Gem County
  • Valley County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.valley.id.us/
    • County Seat for Valley:   Cascade
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Grimes Pass   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Grimes Pass.
      • High Valley
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • High Valley is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Valley
      • Smiths Ferry
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Smiths Ferry is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smiths Ferry
      • Alpha
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Alpha is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
      • Cabarton
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Cabarton is located in Valley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabarton
      • Belvidere
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Grimes Pass) 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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