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Nearest Communities to Burns,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.<1>

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


Burns is located in Harney County and is the County Seat.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Harney County: Humboldt (NV), Washoe (NV), Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Lake & Malheur.

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

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

  • Harney County   (where Burns resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.harney.or.us/
    • County Seat for Harney:   Burns
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Burns   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Burns.
      • Indian Village
        (Less than 2 miles to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
        • Indian Village is located in Harney County
      • Hines
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Poison Creek
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Poison Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poison Creek
        • Poison Creek is located in Harney County
      • Redess
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Redess have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redess
        • Redess is located in Harney County
      • Harney
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harney have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harney
        • Harney is located in Harney County
      • Lawen
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Buchanan
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buchanan have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buchanan
        • Buchanan is located in Harney County
      • Narrows ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Narrows have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narrows
        • Narrows is located in Harney County
      • Riley
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Trout Creek
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trout Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trout Creek
        • Trout Creek is located in Harney County
      • Voltage
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Voltage have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Voltage
        • Voltage is located in Harney County
      • Crane
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Suntex
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Suntex have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suntex
        • Suntex is located in Harney County
  • Grant 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- Burns) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Burns. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.5883, Longitude: -119.0613       In this case, the coordinates for Burns 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.
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