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Nearest Communities to Lawen,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.

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.


Lawen is located in Harney County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Harney County: Humboldt (NV), Washoe (NV), Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Lake & Malheur.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lawen.

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 Lawen (which is Harney 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 Lawen

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

  • Harney County   (where Lawen resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.harney.or.us/
    • County Seat for Harney:   Burns
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lawen   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lawen.
      • Redess
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Redess have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redess
        • Redess is located in Harney County
      • Crane
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Voltage
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Voltage have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Voltage
        • Voltage is located in Harney County
      • Narrows ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Narrows have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narrows
        • Narrows is located in Harney County
      • Harney
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harney have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harney
        • Harney is located in Harney County
      • New Princeton
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Princeton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Princeton
        • New Princeton is located in Harney County
      • Buchanan
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buchanan have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buchanan
        • Buchanan is located in Harney County
      • Burns
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burns have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burns
        • Burns is located in Harney County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,791 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Burns <4>
      • Hines
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Indian Village
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
          • Indian Village is located in Harney County
        • Princeton ‑ Historic
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Poison Creek
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Poison Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poison Creek
          • Poison Creek is located in Harney County
        • Venator
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Venator have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venator
          • Venator is located in Harney County
        • Dunnean
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dunnean have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunnean
          • Dunnean is located in Harney County
        • Diamond
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lawen) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lawen. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.4394, Longitude: -118.8019    
<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.









 

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