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Nearest Communities to Forest Crossing,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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


Forest Crossing is located in Crook County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Crook County: Deschutes, Grant, Harney, Jefferson & Wheeler.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Forest Crossing. Of these communities, 33 are located in counties other than Crook 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 Forest Crossing (which is Crook 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 Forest Crossing

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

  • Crook County   (where Forest Crossing resides)
  • Deschutes County
    • County Website:   https://www.deschutes.org/
    • County Seat for Deschutes:   Bend
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Forest Crossing   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Forest Crossing.
      • Prineville Junction
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Prineville Junction is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prineville Junction
      • Terrebonne
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Redmond
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Cline Falls ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Cline Falls is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cline Falls
      • Lower Bridge ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Lower Bridge is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Bridge
      • Deschutes Junction
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Deschutes Junction is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes Junction
      • Deschutes
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Deschutes is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes
      • Tumalo
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Tumalo is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumalo
      • Cloverdale
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Cloverdale is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
      • Alfalfa
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Plainview
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Plainview is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
      • Bend
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Bend is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 101,886 people
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        • Sisters
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Indian Ford
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Indian Ford is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Ford
        • Deschutes River Woods
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Deschutes River Woods is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes River Woods
        • Black Butte Ranch
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Jefferson County
    • County Website:   https://www.jeffco.net/
    • County Seat for Jefferson:   Madras
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Forest Crossing   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Forest Crossing.
      • Lamonta ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Lamonta is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamonta
      • Crooked River Ranch
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Opal City
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Opal City is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal City
      • Grizzly
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Grizzly is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grizzly
      • Culver
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Culver is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Culver
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,686 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Culver <3>
      • Metolius
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Geneva ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Geneva is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva
      • Grandview ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Grandview is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandview
      • Madras
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Madras is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madras
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,106 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Madras <3>
      • Madras Station
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Madras Station is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madras Station
      • Jumpoff Joe
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Jumpoff Joe is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jumpoff Joe
      • Seekseequa Junction
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Seekseequa Junction is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seekseequa Junction
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        • Paxton
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Paxton is located in Jefferson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxton
        • Camp Sherman
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Gateway
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Gateway is located in Jefferson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gateway
        • Mecca
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Mecca is located in Jefferson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecca
        • Warm Springs
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Forest Crossing) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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.