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Nearest Communities to Wardboro,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 starting from Wardboro.<1>

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

Wardboro is located in Bear Lake County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bear Lake County: Caribou, Franklin, Rich (UT) & Lincoln (WY).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 60 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wardboro. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Bear Lake 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 Wardboro (which is Bear Lake 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 Wardboro

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

  • Bear Lake County   (where Wardboro resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.bearlakecounty.info/
    • County Seat for Bear Lake:   Paris
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wardboro   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wardboro.
      • Dingle
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Montpelier
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Alton
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Alton is located in Bear Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alton
      • Ovid
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Paris
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Harer
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Harer is located in Bear Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harer
      • Bloomington
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Lanark
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Lanark is located in Bear Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanark
      • Bern
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Bennington
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Liberty
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Liberty is located in Bear Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
      • Lifton
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Lifton is located in Bear Lake County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lifton
      • Continue List   (19 more) ...
        • Bear Lake Hot Springs
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
          • Bear Lake Hot Springs is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Lake Hot Springs
        • Turnpike
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
          • Turnpike is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnpike
        • Pegram
          (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Pegram is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pegram
        • Raymond
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
          • Raymond is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymond
        • Chausse
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Chausse is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chausse
        • Saint Charles
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Border
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Giveout
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Giveout is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Giveout
        • Sharon
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Sharon is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharon
        • Geneva
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Lindsayville
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Lindsayville is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindsayville
        • Wooleys
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Wooleys is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wooleys
        • Bear Lake Sands
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
          • Bear Lake Sands is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Lake Sands
        • Georgetown
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Fish Haven
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Nounan
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Nounan is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nounan
        • Novene
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
          • Novene is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Novene
        • Glencoe
          (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
          • Glencoe is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glencoe
        • Manson
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Manson is located in Bear Lake County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manson
  • Caribou County
  • Franklin County
    • County Website:   https://www.franklincountyidaho.org/
    • County Seat for Franklin:   Preston
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wardboro   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wardboro.
      • Mink Creek
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Mink Creek is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mink Creek
      • Cleveland
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Cleveland is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
      • Glendale
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Glendale is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale
      • Mound Valley
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Mound Valley is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mound Valley
      • Thatcher
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Mapleton
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Mapleton is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mapleton
      • Cherryville
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Riverdale
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Riverdale is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale
      • Treasureton
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Treasureton is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Treasureton
      • Nashville
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Nashville is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashville
      • Egypt
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Egypt is located in Franklin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egypt
  • Rich County
  • Lincoln County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wardboro) 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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