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Nearest Communities to White Bird,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from White Bird.<1>

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

White Bird 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 42 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of White Bird. Of these communities, 4 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 White Bird (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 White Bird

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

  • Idaho County   (where White Bird resides)
    • County Website:   https://idahocounty.org/planb/
    • County Seat for Idaho:   Grangeville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to White Bird   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from White Bird.
      • Copperville
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Whipsaw Saddle
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Whipsaw Saddle is located in Idaho County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whipsaw Saddle
      • Canfield
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Canfield is located in Idaho County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canfield
      • Taylor
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Taylor is located in Idaho County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
      • Slate Creek
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Slate Creek is located in Idaho County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Creek
      • Joseph
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Joseph is located in Idaho County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joseph
      • Shells Lick
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Mexican Place
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Mexican Place is located in Idaho County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexican Place
      • Fenn
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Grangeville
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Mount Idaho
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Boles
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Continue List   (26 more) ...
        • Lucile
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Davidson
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
          • Davidson is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davidson
        • Denver
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
          • Denver is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denver
        • Asbestos Point
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
          • Asbestos Point is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asbestos Point
        • Keuterville
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Cottonwood
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Harpster
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Harpster is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harpster
        • Florence
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Florence is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
        • Sampson
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Sampson is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sampson
        • Greencreek
          (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
          • Greencreek is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greencreek
        • Riggins
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Seaburg
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
          • Seaburg is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seaburg
        • Riggins Hot Springs
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
          • Riggins Hot Springs is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riggins Hot Springs
        • Dryden
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Dryden is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryden
        • Westlake
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Westlake is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westlake
        • Clearwater
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Clearwater is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearwater
        • French Creek
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • French Creek is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for French Creek
        • Ferdinand
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Winona
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Winona is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winona
        • Stites
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Cable Car Crossing
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Cable Car Crossing is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cable Car Crossing
        • Green
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Green is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green
        • Turner
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Turner is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turner
        • De Veny Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • De Veny Place is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Veny Place
        • Golden
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Golden is located in Idaho County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden
        • Kooskia
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Lewis County
  • Wallowa County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- White Bird) 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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