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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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

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   ...
    • 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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alder have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alder
        • Alder is located in Wallowa County
      • 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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Freels have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freels
        • Freels is located in Wallowa County
      • Armin ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Armin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armin
        • Armin is located in Wallowa County
      • Evans
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Lostine
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • 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)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fruita have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruita
        • Fruita is located in Wallowa County
      • Zumwalt
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Zumwalt have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zumwalt
        • Zumwalt is located in Wallowa County
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Imnaha
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Sevier
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sevier have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevier
          • Sevier is located in Wallowa County
        • Lewis
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lewis have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewis
          • Lewis is located in Wallowa County
        • Chico ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chico have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chico
          • Chico is located in Wallowa County
        • Minam
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Minam have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minam
          • Minam is located in Wallowa County
  • Baker County
  • Union County
  • Adams County

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- 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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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