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Nearest Communities to Oxbow,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.

Oxbow is located in Baker County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Baker County: Adams (ID), Grant, Malheur, Union, Wallowa & Washington.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 46 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Oxbow. Of these communities, 32 are located in counties other than Baker 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 Oxbow (which is Baker 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 Oxbow

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

  • Baker County   (where Oxbow resides)
  • Wallowa County
  • Adams County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.adams.id.us/
    • County Seat for Adams:   Council (ID)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Oxbow   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Oxbow.
      • Wildhorse
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Wildhorse is located in Adams County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildhorse
      • Bear
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Bear is located in Adams County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear
      • Cuprum
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Cuprum is located in Adams County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuprum
      • Landore
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Landore is located in Adams County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landore
      • Helena
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Helena is located in Adams County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
      • Starkey
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Starkey is located in Adams County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Starkey
      • Evergreen
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Evergreen is located in Adams County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen
      • Pine Ridge
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Pine Ridge is located in Adams County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
      • Tamarack
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Woodland
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Woodland is located in Adams County (ID)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland
      • Fruitvale
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Rubicon
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (10 more) ...
        • Devils Ladder
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Devils Ladder is located in Adams County (ID)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Ladder
        • Glendale
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Glendale is located in Adams County (ID)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale
        • Stevens
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Stevens is located in Adams County (ID)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stevens
        • Rankin Mill
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Rankin Mill is located in Adams County (ID)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankin Mill
        • Hoover
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Hoover is located in Adams County (ID)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover
        • Council
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Goodrich
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Goodrich is located in Adams County (ID)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodrich
        • Bacon
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Bacon is located in Adams County (ID)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bacon
        • New Meadows
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Meadows
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Idaho County
  • Valley County
  • Washington County

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Oxbow) 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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