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Nearest Communities to Cedar Junction,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

Keep in mind 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.


Although our information shows that the community of Cedar Junction is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Mineral County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mineral County: Clearwater (ID), Shoshone (ID), Missoula & Sanders.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 48 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cedar Junction. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Mineral County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Cedar Junction (which is Mineral 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 Cedar Junction

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

  • Mineral County   (where Cedar Junction resides)
    • County Website:   https://co.mineral.mt.us/
    • County Seat for Mineral:   Superior
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cedar Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cedar Junction.
      • Spring Gulch
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Spring Gulch is located in Mineral County
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      • Amador ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Amador is located in Mineral County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amador
      • Cedar Mouth ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Cedar Mouth is located in Mineral County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Mouth
      • Oliverville
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Oliverville is located in Mineral County
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      • Superior
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Riverbend
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Riverbend is located in Mineral County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverbend
      • Crescent City ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Crescent City is located in Mineral County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent City
      • Lozeau
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Lozeau is located in Mineral County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lozeau
      • Westfall
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Westfall is located in Mineral County
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      • Keystone ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Keystone is located in Mineral County
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      • Hopkins
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Hopkins is located in Mineral County
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      • Saint Regis
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
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        • Quartz
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Quartz is located in Mineral County
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        • Toole
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
          • Toole is located in Mineral County
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        • Buford ‑ Historic
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
          • Buford is located in Mineral County
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        • Foraker
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Foraker is located in Mineral County
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        • Tarkio
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Tarkio is located in Mineral County
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        • Drexel
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Drexel is located in Mineral County
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        • Cabin City
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Cabin City is located in Mineral County
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        • Cyr
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Cyr is located in Mineral County
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        • Henderson
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Henderson is located in Mineral County
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        • De Borgia
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Haugan
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Alberton
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Saltese
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Missoula County
    • County Website:   https://www.missoulacounty.us/
    • County Seat for Missoula:   Missoula
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cedar Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cedar Junction.
      • Old Town
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Old Town is located in Missoula County
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      • Stark
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Stark is located in Missoula County
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      • Lothrop
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Lothrop is located in Missoula County
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      • Ninemile
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Ninemile is located in Missoula County
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      • Soudan
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Soudan is located in Missoula County
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      • Shangville ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Shangville is located in Missoula County
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  • Sanders County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.sanders.mt.us/
    • County Seat for Sanders:   Thompson Falls
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cedar Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cedar Junction.
      • Donlan
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Donlan is located in Sanders County
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      • Quinns
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Quinns is located in Sanders County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinns
      • Island City ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Island City is located in Sanders County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
      • Knowles
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Knowles is located in Sanders County
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      • Paradise
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Plains
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Perma
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Perma is located in Sanders County
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      • Weeksville
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Weeksville is located in Sanders County
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      • Camas Prairie
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Camas Prairie is located in Sanders County
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      • McDonald
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • McDonald is located in Sanders County
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      • Blanchards Corner
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Blanchards Corner is located in Sanders County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blanchards Corner
      • Eddy
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Eddy is located in Sanders County
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  • Clearwater County
  • Shoshone County
    • County Website:   https://shoshonecounty.id.gov/
    • County Seat for Shoshone:   Wallace (ID)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cedar Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cedar Junction.
      • McDonalds
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • McDonalds is located in Shoshone County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDonalds
      • Olsons
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Olsons is located in Shoshone County (ID)
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      • Gold Creek
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Gold Creek is located in Shoshone County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Creek

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- Cedar Junction) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Cedar Junction, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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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