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Nearest Communities to Mountain Home,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Mountain Home is located in Elmore County and is the County Seat.

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

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mountain Home. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Elmore 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 Mountain Home (which is Elmore 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 Mountain Home

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

  • Elmore County   (where Mountain Home resides)
    • County Website:   https://elmorecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Elmore:   Mountain Home
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mountain Home   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mountain Home.
      • Sebree
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Sebree is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sebree
      • Reverse
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Reverse is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reverse
      • Cleft
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Cleft is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleft
      • Chalk Cut
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Chalk Cut is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalk Cut
      • Reclamation Village
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Reclamation Village is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reclamation Village
      • Dixie
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Hammett
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Stout Crossing
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Stout Crossing is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stout Crossing
      • Emigrant Crossing
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Emigrant Crossing is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emigrant Crossing
      • Steamboat Rock
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Steamboat Rock is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steamboat Rock
      • Castle Rocks
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Castle Rocks is located in Elmore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rocks
      • Mayfield
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
  • Ada County
    • County Website:   https://adacounty.id.gov/
    • County Seat for Ada:   Boise
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mountain Home   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mountain Home.
      • Orchard
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Orchard is located in Ada County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard
      • Regina
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Regina is located in Ada County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Regina
      • Blacks ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Blacks is located in Ada County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blacks
      • Leone
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Leone is located in Ada County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leone
      • Neal ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Neal is located in Ada County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neal
  • Owyhee County

Footnotes ...

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