Nearest Communities to Riggins,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Riggins, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Riggins:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest 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 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Riggins is located in Idaho County.
The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Idaho County: Adams, Clearwater, Lemhi, Lewis, Nez Perce, Valley, Missoula (MT), Ravalli (MT) & Wallowa (OR).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Riggins. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Idaho 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 Riggins (which is Idaho 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 Riggins
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Idaho County (where Riggins resides)
- County Website: https://idahocounty.org/planb/
- County Seat for Idaho: Grangeville
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Riggins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Riggins.
- De Veny Place
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- De Veny Place is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Veny Place
- Riggins Hot Springs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Riggins Hot Springs is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riggins Hot Springs
- Lucile
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Pollock
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Potter Place
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Potter Place is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potter Place
- McCrea Place
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- McCrea Place is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCrea Place
- French Creek
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- French Creek is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for French Creek
- Florence
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Florence is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
- Seaburg
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Seaburg is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seaburg
- Slate Creek
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Slate Creek is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Creek
- Sampson
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Sampson is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sampson
- Green
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Green is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green
- Continue List (12 more) ...
- Cable Car Crossing
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Cable Car Crossing is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cable Car Crossing
- Turner
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Turner is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turner
- Taylor
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Taylor is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
- Shells Lick
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Burgdorf
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Copperville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- White Bird
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Whipsaw Saddle
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Whipsaw Saddle is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whipsaw Saddle
- Joseph
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Joseph is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joseph
- Canfield
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Canfield is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canfield
- Mexican Place
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Mexican Place is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexican Place
- Cross Trails
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Cross Trails is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Trails
- Adams County
- County Website: https://www.co.adams.id.us/
- County Seat for Adams: Council
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Riggins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Riggins.
- Pinehurst
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Pinehurst is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinehurst
- Rankin Mill
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Rankin Mill is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankin Mill
- Devils Ladder
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Devils Ladder is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Ladder
- Helena
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Helena is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
- Landore
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Landore is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landore
- Cuprum
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cuprum is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuprum
- Rubicon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Wallowa County
- County Website: https://www.co.wallowa.or.us/
- County Seat for Wallowa: Enterprise (OR)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Riggins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Riggins.
- Parliament
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Parliament is located in Wallowa County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parliament
- Copper ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Copper is located in Wallowa County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper
- Imnaha
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Fruita
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Fruita is located in Wallowa County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruita
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Riggins) 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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