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Nearest Communities to Plainview,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 west 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.<1>

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

Plainview 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 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Plainview. Of these communities, 14 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 Plainview (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 Plainview

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

  • Deschutes County   (where Plainview resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.deschutes.org/
    • County Seat for Deschutes:   Bend
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plainview.
      • Cloverdale
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Cloverdale is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
      • Sisters
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Tumalo
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Tumalo is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumalo
      • Cline Falls ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Cline Falls is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cline Falls
      • Indian Ford
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Indian Ford is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Ford
      • Deschutes Junction
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Deschutes Junction is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes Junction
      • Deschutes
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Deschutes is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes
      • Lower Bridge ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Lower Bridge is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Bridge
      • Black Butte Ranch
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Redmond
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Bend
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • 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>
      • Prineville Junction
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Prineville Junction is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prineville Junction
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Terrebonne
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Deschutes River Woods
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
          • Deschutes River Woods is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes River Woods
        • Lava
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Lava is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lava
        • Sunriver
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Alfalfa
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Elk Lake
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Elk Lake is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Lake
        • Three Rivers
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Three Rivers is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Rivers
  • Crook County
  • Jefferson County
    • County Website:   https://www.jeffco.net/
    • County Seat for Jefferson:   Madras
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plainview.
      • Geneva ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Geneva is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva
      • Crooked River Ranch
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Camp Sherman
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Opal City
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Opal City is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal City
      • Grandview ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Grandview is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandview
      • Culver
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Culver is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Culver
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,686 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Culver <3>
      • Lamonta ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Lamonta is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamonta
      • Metolius
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Lane County
  • Linn 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- Plainview) 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.