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Nearest Communities to Bates,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 Bates.<1>

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

Bates is located in Grant County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Grant County: Baker, Crook, Harney, Malheur, Morrow, Umatilla, Union & Wheeler.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bates. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Grant 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 Bates (which is Grant 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 Bates

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

  • Grant County   (where Bates resides)
    • County Seat for Grant:   Canyon City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bates   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bates.
      • Austin
        (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Austin Junction
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Austin Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin Junction
        • Austin Junction is located in Grant County
      • Robinsonville
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinsonville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinsonville
        • Robinsonville is located in Grant County
      • Prairie City
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie City
        • Prairie City is located in Grant County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 872 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Prairie City <4>
      • Granite
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Porterville ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Porterville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porterville
        • Porterville is located in Grant County
      • Susanville ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Galena
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Cabell City
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • John Day
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Canyon City
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Range
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Range have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Range
        • Range is located in Grant County
      • Long Creek
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Waterbury Mill
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Waterbury Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterbury Mill
        • Waterbury Mill is located in Grant County
  • Baker County
    • County Website:   www.bakercounty.org/
    • County Seat for Baker:   Baker City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bates   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bates.
      • Parkersville ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Parkersville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkersville
        • Parkersville is located in Baker County
      • Greenhorn
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Carroll ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carroll have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carroll
        • Carroll is located in Baker County
      • Whitney ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Audrey ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Audrey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Audrey
        • Audrey is located in Baker County
      • Sumpter
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Unity
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Unity have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unity
        • Unity is located in Baker County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 71 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Unity <4>
      • McEwen
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McEwen have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McEwen
        • McEwen is located in Baker County
      • Cableville ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cableville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cableville
        • Cableville is located in Baker County
      • Bourne
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Hereford
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Auburn ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Little Alps
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Alps have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Alps
        • Little Alps is located in Baker County
      • Pocahontas ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Pocahontas. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pocahontas
        • Pocahontas is located in Baker County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Pocahontas
        • From Bates to Pocahontas

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bates) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.5929, Longitude: -118.5100    
<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.




 

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