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Nearest Communities to Obsidian,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 north.

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 north 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 starting from Obsidian.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Obsidian is located in Custer County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Custer County: Blaine, Boise, Butte, Elmore, Lemhi & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Obsidian. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Custer 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 Obsidian (which is Custer 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 Obsidian

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

  • Custer County   (where Obsidian resides)
    • County Website:   https://custercountyidaho.org/
    • County Seat for Custer:   Challis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Obsidian   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Obsidian.
      • Lower Stanley
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Lower Stanley is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Stanley
      • Stanley
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Sunbeam
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Sunbeam is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunbeam
      • Robinson Bar
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Robinson Bar is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Bar
      • Grandjean
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Grandjean is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandjean
      • Torreys
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Torreys is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreys
      • Bonanza ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Bonanza is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
      • Custer ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Custer is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Custer
      • Clayton
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Cape Horn ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Cape Horn is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cape Horn
      • Crystal ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Crystal is located in Custer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
  • Blaine County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.blaine.id.us/
    • County Seat for Blaine:   Hailey
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Obsidian   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Obsidian.
      • Sawtooth City
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Sawtooth City is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawtooth City
      • Galena
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Galena is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
      • Boulder ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Boulder is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder
        • Boulder has also been known as:
        • Boulder Basin
      • Easley Hot Springs
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Easley Hot Springs is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easley Hot Springs
      • Cathedral Pines
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Cathedral Pines is located in Blaine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cathedral Pines
  • Boise County
  • Elmore County

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- Obsidian) 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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