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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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

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 Website:   https://grantcountyoregon.net/
    • 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)
        • Austin Junction is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin Junction
      • Canyon City
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • 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)
        • Austin is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin
      • Galena
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Galena is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
      • Susanville ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Susanville is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Susanville
      • Robinsonville
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Robinsonville is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinsonville
      • Mount Vernon
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Beech Creek
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Beech Creek is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Creek
      • Fox Mill
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Fox Mill is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Mill
      • Fox
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Waterbury Mill
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Waterbury Mill is located in Grant County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterbury Mill
        • Long Creek
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Seneca
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Porterville ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Porterville is located in Grant County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porterville
        • Granite
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Granite is located in Grant County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 36 people
  • Baker County
    • County Website:   https://www.bakercountyor.gov/
    • 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)
        • Greenhorn is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhorn
      • Parkersville ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Parkersville is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkersville
      • Carroll ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Carroll is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carroll
      • Whitney ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Whitney is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
      • Audrey ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Audrey is located in Baker County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Audrey
      • Unity
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Prairie City) 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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