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Nearest Communities to Imnaha,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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.

Imnaha 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 34 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Imnaha. Of these communities, 18 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 Imnaha (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 Imnaha

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

  • Wallowa County   (where Imnaha resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.wallowa.or.us/
    • County Seat for Wallowa:   Enterprise
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Imnaha   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Imnaha.
      • Zumwalt
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Zumwalt is located in Wallowa County
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      • Parliament
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Parliament is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parliament
      • Lewis
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Lewis is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewis
      • Armin ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Armin is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armin
      • Copper ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Copper is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper
      • Chico ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Chico is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chico
      • Pleasant Center
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Pleasant Center is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Center
      • Fruita
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Fruita is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruita
      • Enterprise
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Joseph
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Alder ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Alder is located in Wallowa County
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      • Hurricane Grange
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Hurricane Grange is located in Wallowa County
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        • Freels
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Freels is located in Wallowa County
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        • Evans
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Lostine Station
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Lostine Station is located in Wallowa County
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        • Lostine
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Adams County
  • Idaho County
    • County Website:   https://idahocounty.org/planb/
    • County Seat for Idaho:   Grangeville (ID)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Imnaha   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Imnaha.
      • Davidson
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Davidson is located in Idaho County (ID)
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      • Taylor
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Taylor is located in Idaho County (ID)
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      • Joseph
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Joseph is located in Idaho County (ID)
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      • Mexican Place
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Mexican Place is located in Idaho County (ID)
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      • McCrea Place
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • McCrea Place is located in Idaho County (ID)
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      • Lucile
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • De Veny Place
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • De Veny Place is located in Idaho County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Veny Place
      • Potter Place
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Potter Place is located in Idaho County (ID)
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      • Riggins
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Slate Creek
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Slate Creek is located in Idaho County (ID)
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      • Copperville
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Boles
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
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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- Imnaha) 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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