Nearest Communities to Olsons,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Olsons, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Olsons:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 from Olsons.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Olsons is located in Shoshone County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Shoshone County: Benewah, Bonner, Clearwater, Kootenai, Latah, Mineral (MT) & Sanders (MT).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Olsons. Of these communities, 36 are located in counties other than Shoshone 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 Olsons (which is Shoshone 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 Olsons
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Shoshone County (where Olsons resides)
- County Website: https://shoshonecounty.id.gov/
- County Seat for Shoshone: Wallace
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Olsons ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Olsons.
- McDonalds
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- McDonalds is located in Shoshone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDonalds
- Gold Creek
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Gold Creek is located in Shoshone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Creek
- Clearwater County
- County Website: https://www.clearwatercounty.org/
- County Seat for Clearwater: Orofino
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Olsons ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Olsons.
- The Cedars
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- The Cedars is located in Clearwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Cedars
- Moose City
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Moose City is located in Clearwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moose City
- Isabella Landing
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Isabella Landing is located in Clearwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabella Landing
- Cayuse Junction
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Cayuse Junction is located in Clearwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayuse Junction
- Mineral County
- County Website: https://co.mineral.mt.us/
- County Seat for Mineral: Superior (MT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Olsons ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Olsons.
- Cedar Junction ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Cedar Junction is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Junction
- Crescent City ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Crescent City is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent City
- Quartz
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Quartz is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quartz
- Amador ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Amador is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amador
- Cedar Mouth ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Cedar Mouth is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Mouth
- Oliverville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Oliverville is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oliverville
- Riverbend
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Riverbend is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverbend
- Spring Gulch
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Spring Gulch is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Gulch
- Superior
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Tarkio
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Tarkio is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarkio
- Lozeau
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Lozeau is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lozeau
- Westfall
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Westfall is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfall
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- Buford ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Buford is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buford
- Foraker
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Foraker is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foraker
- Saint Regis
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Keystone ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Keystone is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
- Toole
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Toole is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toole
- Hopkins
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Hopkins is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopkins
- Drexel
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Drexel is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drexel
- Cyr
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Cyr is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cyr
- Cabin City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Cabin City is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabin City
- Henderson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Henderson is located in Mineral County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henderson
- De Borgia
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Haugan
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Alberton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Missoula County
- County Website: https://www.missoulacounty.us/
- County Seat for Missoula: Missoula (MT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Olsons ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Olsons.
- Old Town
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Old Town is located in Missoula County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
- Stark
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Stark is located in Missoula County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stark
- Sanders County
- County Website: https://www.co.sanders.mt.us/
- County Seat for Sanders: Thompson Falls (MT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Olsons ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Olsons.
- Donlan
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Donlan is located in Sanders County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donlan
- Quinns
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Quinns is located in Sanders County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinns
- Island City ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Island City is located in Sanders County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
- Knowles
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Knowles is located in Sanders County (MT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knowles
- Paradise
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Olsons) 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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