Nearest Communities to Ketchum,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ketchum, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ketchum:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 from Ketchum.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Ketchum is located in Blaine County.
The following 10 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Blaine County: Bingham, Boise, Butte, Camas, Cassia, Custer, Elmore, Lincoln, Minidoka & Power.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ketchum. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Blaine 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 Ketchum (which is Blaine 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 Ketchum
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Blaine County (where Ketchum resides)
- County Website: www.co.blaine.id.us/
- County Seat for Blaine: Hailey
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Blaine County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Blaine County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Blaine County
- Nearest Communities to Ketchum ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ketchum.
- Sun Valley
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Valley
- Sun Valley is located in Blaine County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,503 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sun Valley <3>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Sun Valley
- From Ketchum to Sun Valley
- Elkhorn Village
(Less than 2 miles to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkhorn Village have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Village
- Elkhorn Village is located in Blaine County
- Gimlet
(5 miles [8 km] to the south) - Triumph
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Triumph. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triumph
- Triumph is located in Blaine County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Triumph
- From Ketchum to Triumph
- Barite
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south) - Clarendon Hot Springs
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clarendon Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarendon Hot Springs
- Clarendon Hot Springs is located in Blaine County
- Cathedral Pines
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cathedral Pines have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cathedral Pines
- Cathedral Pines is located in Blaine County
- Easley Hot Springs
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Easley Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easley Hot Springs
- Easley Hot Springs is located in Blaine County
- Boulder ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder
- Boulder is located in Blaine County
- Boulder has also been known as:
- Boulder Basin
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Boulder
- From Ketchum to Boulder
- Hailey
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hailey have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hailey
- Hailey is located in Blaine County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,887 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hailey <3>
- Bullion
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south) - Bellevue
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bellevue have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellevue
- Bellevue is located in Blaine County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,501 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bellevue <3>
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- Broadford
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadford
- Broadford is located in Blaine County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Broadford
- From Ketchum to Broadford
- Galena
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
- Galena is located in Blaine County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Galena
- From Ketchum to Galena
- Doniphan
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south) - Stanton Crossing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stanton Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanton Crossing
- Stanton Crossing is located in Blaine County
- Gannett
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gannett
- Gannett is located in Blaine County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Gannett
- From Ketchum to Gannett
- Sawtooth City
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sawtooth City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawtooth City
- Sawtooth City is located in Blaine County
- Magic City
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Magic City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magic City
- Magic City is located in Blaine County
- Magic Resort
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Magic Resort have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magic Resort
- Magic Resort is located in Blaine County
- Leduc ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast) - Picabo
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Picabo
- Picabo is located in Blaine County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Picabo <3>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Picabo
- From Ketchum to Picabo
- Broadford
- Camas County
- County Seat for Camas: Fairfield
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Camas County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Camas County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Camas County
- Nearest Communities to Ketchum ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ketchum.
- Carrietown
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carrietown have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrietown
- Carrietown is located in Camas County
- Indian Head Rock
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Head Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Head Rock
- Indian Head Rock is located in Camas County
- Macon
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south) - Blaine
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest) - Rands
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Magic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south) - Selby
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Soldier
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Ketchum) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ketchum. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.6822, Longitude: -114.3664 |
| <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. |
| <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> | 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. |