Nearest Communities to Steamboat Rock,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Steamboat Rock, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Steamboat Rock:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
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 south 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.
Steamboat Rock is located in Elmore County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Elmore County: Ada, Boise, Camas, Gooding, Owyhee & Twin Falls.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Steamboat Rock. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Elmore 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 Steamboat Rock (which is Elmore 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 Steamboat Rock
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elmore County (where Steamboat Rock resides)
- County Website: https://elmorecounty.org/
- County Seat for Elmore: Mountain Home
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Steamboat Rock ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Steamboat Rock.
- Prairie
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Prairie is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie
- Reclamation Village
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Reclamation Village is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reclamation Village
- Dixie
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Dixie is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie
- Mayfield
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Mayfield is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayfield
- Pine
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Castle Rocks
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Castle Rocks is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Rocks
- Cleft
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Cleft is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleft
- Paradise Hot Springs
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Paradise Hot Springs is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Hot Springs
- Sebree
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Sebree is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sebree
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- Featherville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Featherville is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Featherville
- Mountain Home
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Rocky Bar ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Rocky Bar is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Bar
- Spanish Town ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Spanish Town is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Town
- Stout Crossing
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Stout Crossing is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stout Crossing
- Reverse
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Reverse is located in Elmore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reverse
- Ada County
- County Website: https://adacounty.id.gov/
- County Seat for Ada: Boise
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Steamboat Rock ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Steamboat Rock.
- Neal ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Neal is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neal
- Regina
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Regina is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Regina
- Blacks ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Blacks is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blacks
- Orchard
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Orchard is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard
- Leone
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Leone is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leone
- Barber
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Barber is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barber
- Blacks Creek
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Blacks Creek is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blacks Creek
- Hillcrest
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Hillcrest is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest
- Owyhee
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Owyhee is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owyhee
- South Boise ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- South Boise is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Boise
- Vernon
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Vernon is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernon
- Boise Hills Village
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Boise Hills Village is located in Ada County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boise Hills Village
- Boise County
- County Website: https://www.boisecounty.us/
- County Seat for Boise: Idaho City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Steamboat Rock ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Steamboat Rock.
- Twin Springs
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Twin Springs is located in Boise County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Springs
- Idaho City
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Camas County
- County Website: https://camascounty.id.gov/
- County Seat for Camas: Fairfield
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Steamboat Rock ...
- Hill City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
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 from Point A (ie- Steamboat Rock) 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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