Nearest Communities to Joseph,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Joseph, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Joseph:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Joseph.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Joseph 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 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Joseph. Of these communities, 7 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 Joseph (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 Joseph
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Wallowa County (where Joseph resides)
- County Website: www.co.wallowa.or.us/
- County Seat for Wallowa: Enterprise
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Oregon
- Wallowa County
- From Family Search:
- State of Oregon
- Wallowa County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Oregon
- Wallowa County
- Nearest Communities to Joseph ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Joseph.
- Hurricane Grange
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hurricane Grange have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurricane Grange
- Hurricane Grange is located in Wallowa County
- Alder ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest) - Enterprise
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Enterprise have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
- Enterprise is located in Wallowa County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,994 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Enterprise <4>
- Pleasant Center
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Center have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Center
- Pleasant Center is located in Wallowa County
- Freels
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest) - Armin ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east) - Evans
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans
- Evans is located in Wallowa County
- Lostine
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lostine
- Lostine is located in Wallowa County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 225 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lostine <4>
- Lostine Station
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lostine Station have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lostine Station
- Lostine Station is located in Wallowa County
- Wallowa
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wallowa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallowa
- Wallowa is located in Wallowa County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 831 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wallowa <4>
- Fruita
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast) - Zumwalt
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast) - Continue List (5 more) ...
- Imnaha
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imnaha
- Imnaha is located in Wallowa County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Imnaha <4>
- Sevier
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest) - Lewis
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north) - Chico ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - Minam
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Imnaha
- Baker County
- County Website: www.bakercounty.org/
- County Seat for Baker: Baker City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Oregon
- Baker County
- From Family Search:
- State of Oregon
- Baker County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Oregon
- Baker County
- Nearest Communities to Joseph ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Joseph.
- Cornucopia ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornucopia
- Cornucopia is located in Baker County
- Carson
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south) - Homestead ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homestead
- Homestead is located in Baker County
- Jimtown
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jimtown
- Jimtown is located in Baker County
- Union County
- County Website: www.union-county.org/
- County Seat for Union: La Grande
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Oregon
- Union County
- From Family Search:
- State of Oregon
- Union County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Oregon
- Union County
- Nearest Communities to Joseph ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Joseph.
- Cove
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove
- Cove is located in Union County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 652 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cove <4>
- Medical Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Medical Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medical Springs
- Medical Springs is located in Union County
- Adams County
- County Website: www.co.adams.id.us/
- County Seat for Adams: Council (ID)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Idaho
- Adams County
- From Family Search:
- State of Idaho
- Adams County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Idaho
- Adams County
- Nearest Communities to Joseph ...
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Joseph) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Joseph. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.3514, Longitude: -117.2284 |
| <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. |
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