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Nearest Communities to Marion Forks,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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 starting from Marion Forks.<1>

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

Marion Forks is located in Linn County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Linn County: Benton, Deschutes, Jefferson, Lane, Marion & Polk.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Marion Forks. Of these communities, 16 are located in counties other than Linn 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 Marion Forks (which is Linn 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 Marion Forks

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

  • Linn County   (where Marion Forks resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.linncountyor.gov/
    • County Seat for Linn:   Albany
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Marion Forks   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Marion Forks.
      • Idanha
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • New Idanha
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Jack Shelter
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Jack Shelter is located in Linn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jack Shelter
      • Santiam Junction
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Santiam Junction is located in Linn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santiam Junction
      • Lone Star
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Lone Star is located in Linn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Star
      • Bryant City ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Bryant City is located in Linn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryant City
      • Upper Soda
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Upper Soda is located in Linn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Soda
      • Anidem ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Anidem is located in Linn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anidem
      • Gates
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Mill City
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Roberts
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Roberts is located in Linn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
      • Cascadia
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Deschutes County
  • Jefferson County
  • Lane County
  • Marion County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.marion.or.us/
    • County Seat for Marion:   Salem
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Marion Forks   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Marion Forks.
      • Breitenbush Hot Springs
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Breitenbush
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Breitenbush is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breitenbush
      • Detroit
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Jawbone Flats ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Jawbone Flats is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jawbone Flats
      • Niagara
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Niagara is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niagara
      • Minto
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Minto is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minto
      • Elkhorn
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Elkhorn is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn
      • Elkhorn Woods
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Elkhorn Woods is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Woods
      • Gooch
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Gooch is located in Marion County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gooch

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 from Point A (ie- Marion Forks) 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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