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Nearest Communities to Prairie City,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

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.

Prairie City is located in Grant County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Grant County: Baker, Crook, Harney, Malheur, Morrow, Umatilla, Union & Wheeler.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Prairie City. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Grant 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 Prairie City (which is Grant 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 Prairie City

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

  • Grant County   (where Prairie City resides)
    • County Seat for Grant:   Canyon City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairie City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie City.
      • Austin Junction
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Austin Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin Junction
        • Austin Junction is located in Grant County
      • Canyon City
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Canyon City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon City
        • Canyon City is located in Grant County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 659 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Canyon City <4>
      • John Day
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Bates
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Austin
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin
        • Austin is located in Grant County
      • Galena
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
        • Galena is located in Grant County
      • Susanville ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Susanville
        • Susanville is located in Grant County
      • Robinsonville
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinsonville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinsonville
        • Robinsonville is located in Grant County
      • Mount Vernon
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Beech Creek
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beech Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Creek
        • Beech Creek is located in Grant County
      • Fox Mill
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fox Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Mill
        • Fox Mill is located in Grant County
      • Fox
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Waterbury Mill
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Waterbury Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterbury Mill
          • Waterbury Mill is located in Grant County
        • Long Creek
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Seneca
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Seneca have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seneca
          • Seneca is located in Grant County
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 225 people
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Seneca <4>
        • Porterville ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Porterville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porterville
          • Porterville is located in Grant County
        • Granite
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
          • Granite is located in Grant County
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 36 people
  • Baker County
    • County Website:   www.bakercounty.org/
    • County Seat for Baker:   Baker City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prairie City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prairie City.
      • Greenhorn
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhorn
        • Greenhorn is located in Baker County
      • Parkersville ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Parkersville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkersville
        • Parkersville is located in Baker County
      • Carroll ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carroll have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carroll
        • Carroll is located in Baker County
      • Whitney ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
        • Whitney is located in Baker County
      • Audrey ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Audrey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Audrey
        • Audrey is located in Baker County
      • Unity
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Unity have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unity
        • Unity is located in Baker County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 71 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Unity <4>
  • Harney County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Prairie City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Prairie City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.4611, Longitude: -118.7099       In this case, the coordinates for Prairie City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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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