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Nearest Communities to Elk Lake,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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

Elk Lake is located in Deschutes County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Deschutes County: Crook, Harney, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Lane & Linn.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 25 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Elk Lake. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Deschutes 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 Elk Lake (which is Deschutes 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 Elk Lake

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

  • Deschutes County   (where Elk Lake resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.deschutes.or.us/
    • County Seat for Deschutes:   Bend
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elk Lake   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elk Lake.
      • Lava
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lava have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lava
        • Lava is located in Deschutes County
      • Sunriver
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Three Rivers
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Three Rivers have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Rivers
        • Three Rivers is located in Deschutes County
      • Deschutes River Woods
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deschutes River Woods have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes River Woods
        • Deschutes River Woods is located in Deschutes County
      • Stearns
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stearns have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stearns
        • Stearns is located in Deschutes County
      • Plainview
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plainview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
        • Plainview is located in Deschutes County
      • Sisters
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Bend
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
        • Bend is located in Deschutes County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 101,886 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bend <4>
      • Tumalo
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumalo
        • Tumalo is located in Deschutes County
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • La Pine
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Indian Ford
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Ford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Ford
          • Indian Ford is located in Deschutes County
        • Cloverdale
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cloverdale have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
          • Cloverdale is located in Deschutes County
        • Black Butte Ranch
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Deschutes Junction
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deschutes Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes Junction
          • Deschutes Junction is located in Deschutes County
        • Deschutes
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deschutes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes
          • Deschutes is located in Deschutes County
  • Klamath County
  • Lane County
    • County Website:   www.lanecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Lane:   Eugene
    • Note: The western boundary of the county is on the Pacific Ocean
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elk Lake   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elk Lake.
      • Belknap Springs
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belknap Springs
        • Belknap Springs is located in Lane County
      • Foley Springs
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Foley Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foley Springs
        • Foley Springs is located in Lane County
      • McKenzie Bridge
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Rainbow
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rainbow have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow
        • Rainbow is located in Lane County
      • Blue River
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Cruzatte
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cruzatte have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cruzatte
        • Cruzatte is located in Lane County
      • Heather
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heather have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heather
        • Heather is located in Lane County
      • McCredie Springs
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCredie Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCredie Springs
        • McCredie Springs is located in Lane County
      • Finn Rock
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)

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- Elk Lake) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Elk Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.9815, Longitude: -121.8059       In this case, the coordinates for Elk Lake 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.




 

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