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Nearest Communities to Hurricane Grange,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Hurricane Grange.<1>

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


Hurricane Grange is located in Wallowa County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Wallowa County: Adams (ID), Idaho (ID), Nez Perce (ID), Baker, Umatilla, Union, Asotin (WA), Columbia (WA) & Garfield (WA).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hurricane Grange. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Wallowa 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 Hurricane Grange (which is Wallowa 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 Hurricane Grange

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

  • Wallowa County   (where Hurricane Grange resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.wallowa.or.us/
    • County Seat for Wallowa:   Enterprise
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hurricane Grange   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hurricane Grange.
      • Joseph
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Alder ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Alder is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alder
      • Enterprise
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Freels
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Freels is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freels
      • Pleasant Center
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Pleasant Center is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Center
      • Evans
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Evans is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans
      • Lostine Station
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Lostine Station is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lostine Station
      • Lostine
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Armin ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Armin is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armin
      • Wallowa
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Fruita
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Fruita is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruita
      • Sevier
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Sevier is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevier
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Zumwalt
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Zumwalt is located in Wallowa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zumwalt
        • Lewis
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Lewis is located in Wallowa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewis
        • Imnaha
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Chico ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Chico is located in Wallowa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chico
        • Minam
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Minam is located in Wallowa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minam
        • Maxville ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Maxville is located in Wallowa County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxville
  • Baker County
    • County Website:   https://www.bakercountyor.gov/
    • County Seat for Baker:   Baker City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hurricane Grange   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hurricane Grange.
      • Cornucopia ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Cornucopia is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornucopia
      • Carson
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Carson is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson
      • Homestead ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Homestead is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homestead
  • Union County
    • County Website:   https://unioncountyor.gov/
    • County Seat for Union:   La Grande
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hurricane Grange   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hurricane Grange.
      • Cove
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Medical Springs
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Medical Springs is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medical Springs
      • Pondosa
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Pondosa is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pondosa
      • Elk Flat ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Elk Flat is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Flat
      • Union
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)

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- Hurricane Grange) 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.
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