Nearest Communities to Williams Lake Resort,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Williams Lake Resort, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Williams Lake Resort:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Williams Lake Resort.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Williams Lake Resort is located in Lemhi County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lemhi County: Butte, Clark, Custer, Idaho, Valley, Beaverhead (MT) & Ravalli (MT).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Williams Lake Resort. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Lemhi 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 Williams Lake Resort (which is Lemhi 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 Williams Lake Resort
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lemhi County (where Williams Lake Resort resides)
- County Seat for Lemhi: Salmon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Lemhi County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Lemhi County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Lemhi County
- Nearest Communities to Williams Lake Resort ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Williams Lake Resort.
- Elk Bend
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south) - Salmon
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salmon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salmon
- Salmon is located in Lemhi County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,182 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Salmon <4>
- Baker
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast) - Blackbird
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest) - Cobalt
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobalt
- Cobalt is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cobalt <4>
- Tendoy
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tendoy
- Tendoy is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tendoy <4>
- Carmen
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carmen have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carmen
- Carmen is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carmen <4>
- Leesburg
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest) - Forney
(18 miles [29 km] to the west) - Lemhi
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lemhi have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemhi
- Lemhi is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lemhi <4>
- North Fork
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fork
- North Fork is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for North Fork <4>
- Yellowjacket
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yellowjacket have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellowjacket
- Yellowjacket is located in Lemhi County
- May
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for May have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May
- May is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for May <4>
- Shoup
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shoup have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoup
- Shoup is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shoup <4>
- Custer County
- 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 Williams Lake Resort ...
- Ellis
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ellis have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellis
- Ellis is located in Custer County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ellis <4>
- Ellis
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Williams Lake Resort) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Williams Lake Resort. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.0119, Longitude: -113.9659 In this case, the coordinates for Williams Lake Resort 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |