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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Mountain Home.<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: www.elmorecounty.org/
- County Seat for Elmore: Mountain Home
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Elmore County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Elmore County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Elmore County
- Nearest Communities to Mountain Home ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mountain Home.
- Sebree
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest) - Reverse
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast) - Cleft
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest) - Chalk Cut
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast) - Dixie
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie
- Dixie is located in Elmore County
- Reclamation Village
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reclamation Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reclamation Village
- Reclamation Village is located in Elmore County
- Hammett
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hammett have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammett
- Hammett is located in Elmore County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hammett <4>
- Stout Crossing
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stout Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stout Crossing
- Stout Crossing is located in Elmore County
- Emigrant Crossing
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Emigrant Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emigrant Crossing
- Emigrant Crossing is located in Elmore County
- Steamboat Rock
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Steamboat Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steamboat Rock
- Steamboat Rock is located in Elmore County
- Mayfield
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest) - Three Island Crossing
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Three Island Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Island Crossing
- Three Island Crossing is located in Elmore County
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Castle Rocks
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castle Rocks have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rocks
- Castle Rocks is located in Elmore County
- Glenns Ferry
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenns Ferry
- Glenns Ferry is located in Elmore County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,295 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Glenns Ferry <4>
- King Hill
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for King Hill
- King Hill is located in Elmore County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for King Hill <4>
- Prairie
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - Pine
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine
- Pine is located in Elmore County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pine <4>
- Castle Rocks
- Ada County
- County Website: www.adaweb.net/
- County Seat for Ada: Boise City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Ada County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Ada County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Ada County
- Nearest Communities to Mountain Home ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mountain Home.
- Orchard
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest) - Regina
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest) - Blacks ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest) - Leone
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest) - Neal ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Owyhee County
- County Website: www.owyheecounty.net/
- County Seat for Owyhee: Murphy
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Owyhee County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Owyhee County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Owyhee County
- Nearest Communities to Mountain Home ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mountain Home.
- Bruneau
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruneau
- Bruneau is located in Owyhee County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bruneau <4>
- Grand View
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand View have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand View
- Grand View is located in Owyhee County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 478 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grand View <4>
- Hot Springs
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
- Hot Springs is located in Owyhee County
- Morgan Place
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morgan Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan Place
- Morgan Place is located in Owyhee County
- Lower Black Butte Crossing
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Black Butte Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Black Butte Crossing
- Lower Black Butte Crossing is located in 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Mountain Home) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mountain Home. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.1358, Longitude: -115.6964 In this case, the coordinates for Mountain Home have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |