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Nearest Communities to Placerville,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.

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.

Placerville is located in Boise County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Boise County: Ada, Custer, Elmore, Gem & Valley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 49 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Placerville. Of these communities, 27 are located in counties other than Boise 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 Placerville (which is Boise 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 Placerville

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

  • Boise County   (where Placerville resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.boisecounty.us/
    • County Seat for Boise:   Idaho City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Placerville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Placerville.
      • Granite
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
        • Granite is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
      • Quartzburg
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Star Ranch Summer Home Area
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Centerville
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Centerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
      • New Centerville
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • New Centerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Centerville
      • Pioneerville
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Pioneerville is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneerville
      • Grimes Pass
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Idaho City
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Washington Mill
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Washington Mill is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Mill
      • Garden Valley
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Tenmile Summer Home Area
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Crouch
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Crouch is located in Boise County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crouch
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
      • Continue List   (10 more) ...
        • Banks
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Gardena
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
          • Gardena is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardena
        • Horseshoe Bend
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Brownlee
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Lowman
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Howell ‑ Historic
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
          • Howell is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howell
        • Big Eddy
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Big Eddy is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Eddy
        • Banner
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Banner is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banner
        • Long Creek Summit Home
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Twin Springs
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Twin Springs is located in Boise County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Springs
  • Ada County
    • County Website:   https://adacounty.id.gov/
    • County Seat for Ada:   Boise
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Placerville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Placerville.
      • Highlands
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Highlands is located in Ada County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highlands
      • Boise Hills Village
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Boise Hills Village is located in Ada County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boise Hills Village
      • Collister
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Garden City
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Boise
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Eagle
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Vernon
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Vernon is located in Ada County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernon
      • Barber
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Barber is located in Ada County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barber
      • Boise Junction
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • South Boise ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • South Boise is located in Ada County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Boise
        • Hillcrest
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Hillcrest is located in Ada County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest
        • Perkins
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Perkins is located in Ada County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perkins
        • Ustick
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Ustick is located in Ada County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ustick
        • Cloverdale
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Cloverdale is located in Ada County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
        • Beatty
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Beatty is located in Ada County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty
  • Gem County
  • Valley 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- Placerville) 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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