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Nearest Communities to Lava,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note 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.

Lava is located in Deschutes County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Deschutes County: Crook, Harney, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Lane & Linn.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lava. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Deschutes 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 Lava (which is Deschutes 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 Lava

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

  • Deschutes County   (where Lava resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.deschutes.org/
    • County Seat for Deschutes:   Bend
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lava   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lava.
      • Sunriver
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Deschutes River Woods
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Deschutes River Woods is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes River Woods
      • Three Rivers
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Three Rivers is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Rivers
      • Stearns
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Stearns is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stearns
      • Bend
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Bend is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 101,886 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bend <3>
      • Tumalo
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Tumalo is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumalo
      • La Pine
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Deschutes Junction
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Deschutes Junction is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes Junction
      • Deschutes
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Deschutes is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes
      • Elk Lake
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Elk Lake is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Lake
      • Plainview
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Plainview is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
      • Alfalfa
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Millican ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
          • Millican is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millican
        • Cline Falls ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Cline Falls is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cline Falls
        • Cloverdale
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Cloverdale is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
        • Sisters
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Redmond
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Prineville Junction
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Prineville Junction is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prineville Junction
        • Lower Bridge ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Lower Bridge is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Bridge
  • Crook County
  • Klamath 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- Lava) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.