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Nearest Communities to Island City,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 from Island City.<1>

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

Island City is located in Union County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Union County: Baker, Grant, Umatilla & Wallowa.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 52 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Island City. Of these communities, 20 are located in counties other than Union 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 Island City (which is Union 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 Island City

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

  • Union County   (where Island City resides)
    • County Website:   https://unioncountyor.gov/
    • County Seat for Union:   La Grande
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Island City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Island City.
      • La Grande
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Conley
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Lone Tree
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
        • Lone Tree is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Tree
      • Orodell ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Alicel
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Alicel is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alicel
      • Perry
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
        • Perry is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perry
      • Hot Lake
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Imbler
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Hilgard
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Summerville
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Cove
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Union Junction
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Union Junction is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Junction
      • Continue List   (20 more) ...
        • Rhinehart
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Rhinehart is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhinehart
        • Union
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Motanic
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
          • Motanic is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Motanic
        • Crooks
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Crooks is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crooks
        • Elgin
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Bodie
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
          • Bodie is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodie
        • Kamela
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
          • Kamela is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kamela
        • Elk Flat ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Elk Flat is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Flat
        • Telocaset
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Telocaset is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telocaset
        • Gulling
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
          • Gulling is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gulling
        • Sago
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Sago is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sago
        • Starkey
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Camp Elkanah
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Camp Elkanah is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Elkanah
        • North Powder
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Camp Carson ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Camp Carson is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Carson
        • Cabin Creek ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Cabin Creek is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabin Creek
        • Looking Glass ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Looking Glass is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Looking Glass
        • Palmer Junction
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Palmer Junction is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmer Junction
        • Medical Springs
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Pondosa
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Pondosa is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pondosa
  • Baker County
  • Umatilla County
  • Wallowa County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.wallowa.or.us/
    • County Seat for Wallowa:   Enterprise
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Island City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Island City.
      • Minam
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Minam is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minam
      • Kimmell
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Kimmell is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimmell
      • Sevier
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Sevier is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevier
      • Rondowa
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Rondowa is located in Wallowa County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rondowa
      • Wallowa
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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- Island City) 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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