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Nearest Communities to Alta,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 north.

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 north 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 Alta.<1>

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

Alta is located in Ravalli County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ravalli County: Idaho (ID), Lemhi (ID), Beaverhead, Granite & Missoula.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Alta. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Ravalli 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 Alta (which is Ravalli 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 Alta

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

  • Ravalli County   (where Alta resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.ravalli.mt.us/
    • County Seat for Ravalli:   Hamilton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Alta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Alta.
      • Medicine Hot Springs
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medicine Hot Springs
        • Medicine Hot Springs is located in Ravalli County
      • Sula
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Conner
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Peaks and Pines Park
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peaks and Pines Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peaks and Pines Park
        • Peaks and Pines Park is located in Ravalli County
      • Darby
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Holtet Court
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holtet Court have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holtet Court
        • Holtet Court is located in Ravalli County
      • University Heights
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for University Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Heights
        • University Heights is located in Ravalli County
  • Beaverhead County
  • Idaho County
    • County Website:   www.idahocounty.org/
    • County Seat for Idaho:   Grangeville (ID)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Alta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Alta.
      • Upper Crossing
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Upper Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Crossing
        • Upper Crossing is located in Idaho County (ID)
      • Magruder Crossing
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Magruder Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magruder Crossing
        • Magruder Crossing is located in Idaho County (ID)
  • Lemhi County
    • County Seat for Lemhi:   Salmon (ID)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Alta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Alta.
      • Ulysses ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ulysses have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulysses
        • Ulysses is located in Lemhi County (ID)
      • Shoup
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shoup have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoup
        • Shoup is located in Lemhi County (ID)
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shoup <3>
      • Gibbonsville
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Gibbonsville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibbonsville
        • Gibbonsville is located in Lemhi County (ID)
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gibbonsville <3>
      • North Fork
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fork
        • North Fork is located in Lemhi County (ID)
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for North Fork <3>
      • Leesburg
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Leesburg. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leesburg
        • Leesburg is located in Lemhi County (ID)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Alta) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Alta. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.6188, Longitude: -114.2998       In this case, the coordinates for Alta 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<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.




 

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