Nearest Communities to Sunbeam,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sunbeam, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sunbeam:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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.
Sunbeam is located in Custer County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Custer County: Blaine, Boise, Butte, Elmore, Lemhi & Valley.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sunbeam. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Custer 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 Sunbeam (which is Custer 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 Sunbeam
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Custer County (where Sunbeam resides)
- County Website: www.co.custer.id.us/
- County Seat for Custer: Challis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Custer County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Custer County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Custer County
- Nearest Communities to Sunbeam ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sunbeam.
- Robinson Bar
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinson Bar have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Bar
- Robinson Bar is located in Custer County
- Torreys
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east) - Bonanza ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
- Bonanza is located in Custer County
- Custer ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north) - Lower Stanley
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Stanley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Stanley
- Lower Stanley is located in Custer County
- Stanley
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stanley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
- Stanley is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stanley <5>
- Obsidian
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south) - Clayton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayton
- Clayton is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clayton <5>
- Crystal ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east) - Continue List (6 more) ...
- Casto
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north) - Bayhorse ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayhorse
- Bayhorse is located in Custer County
- Grandjean
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Cape Horn ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest) - Challis
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Challis have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Challis
- Challis is located in Custer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,066 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Challis <5>
- Garden City ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Garden City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden City
- Garden City is located in Custer County
- Casto
- Blaine County
- County Website: www.co.blaine.id.us/
- County Seat for Blaine: Hailey
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Blaine County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Blaine County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Blaine County
- Nearest Communities to Sunbeam ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sunbeam.
- Sawtooth City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sawtooth City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawtooth City
- Sawtooth City is located in Blaine County
- Galena
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
- Galena is located in Blaine County
- Boise County
- County Website: www.co.boise.id.us/
- County Seat for Boise: Idaho City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Boise County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Boise County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Boise County
- Nearest Communities to Sunbeam ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sunbeam.
- Bear Creek Summer Home Area
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bear Creek Summer Home Area have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Creek Summer Home Area
- Bear Creek Summer Home Area is located in Boise County
- Camp Creek Summer Home Area
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Camp Creek Summer Home Area have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Creek Summer Home Area
- Camp Creek Summer Home Area is located in Boise County
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- Sunbeam) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sunbeam. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.2710, Longitude: -114.7342 In this case, the coordinates for Sunbeam have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |