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Nearest Communities to Riddle,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 Riddle.<1>

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

Riddle is located in Owyhee County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Owyhee County: Ada, Canyon, Elmore, Twin Falls, Elko (NV), Humboldt (NV) & Malheur (OR).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Riddle. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Owyhee 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 Riddle (which is Owyhee 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 Riddle

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

  • Owyhee County   (where Riddle resides)
    • County Website:   https://owyheecounty.net/
    • County Seat for Owyhee:   Murphy
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Riddle   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Riddle.
      • Dickens Place
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Dickens Place is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickens Place
      • Miller Creek Settlement
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Frost Place
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Frost Place is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost Place
      • China Hat
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • China Hat is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Hat
      • Tindall ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Tindall was located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tindall
      • Dew Drop Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Dew Drop Place is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dew Drop Place
      • Three Forks
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Three Forks is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Forks
      • Bengoechea Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Bengoechea Place is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengoechea Place
      • Dans Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Dans Place is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dans Place
      • James Place
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • James Place is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James Place
      • Grasmere
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Grasmere is also located in Owyhee County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grasmere
      • Wickahoney ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
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        • Cottonwood ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
          • Cottonwood was located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
        • Harvey Place
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
          • Harvey Place is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvey Place
        • Dry Forty
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Dry Forty is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Forty
        • Dickshooter
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Buncel Place ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Comical Turn
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Comical Turn is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comical Turn
        • Wickahoney Crossing
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Wickahoney Crossing is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wickahoney Crossing
        • Four Corners
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Four Corners is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Corners
        • Collier Place
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Collier Place is also located in Owyhee County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collier Place
        • Rickard Crossing
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Rickard Crossing is also located in Owyhee County
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  • Elko County

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 from Point A (ie- Riddle) 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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