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Nearest Communities to Prineville Junction,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 from Prineville Junction.<1>

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


Prineville Junction 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 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Prineville Junction. Of these communities, 19 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 Prineville Junction (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 Prineville Junction

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

  • Deschutes County   (where Prineville Junction resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.deschutes.org/
    • County Seat for Deschutes:   Bend
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prineville Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prineville Junction.
      • Terrebonne
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Redmond
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Cline Falls ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Cline Falls is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cline Falls
      • Lower Bridge ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Lower Bridge is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Bridge
      • Deschutes
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Deschutes is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes
      • Deschutes Junction
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Deschutes Junction is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes Junction
      • Tumalo
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Tumalo is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumalo
      • Cloverdale
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Cloverdale is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
      • Plainview
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Plainview is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
      • Alfalfa
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Bend
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Bend is located in Deschutes County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 101,886 people
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      • Sisters
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
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        • Indian Ford
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Indian Ford is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Ford
        • Deschutes River Woods
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Deschutes River Woods is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes River Woods
        • Black Butte Ranch
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Lava
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Lava is located in Deschutes County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lava
  • Crook County
    • County Website:   https://co.crook.or.us/
    • County Seat for Crook:   Prineville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prineville Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prineville Junction.
      • O'Neil
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • O'Neil is located in Crook County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Neil
      • Forest Crossing
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Forest Crossing is located in Crook County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Crossing
      • Powell Butte
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Prineville
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Roberts
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Roberts is located in Crook County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
  • Jefferson County
    • County Website:   https://www.jeffco.net/
    • County Seat for Jefferson:   Madras
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Prineville Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Prineville Junction.
      • Crooked River Ranch
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Opal City
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Opal City is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal City
      • Lamonta ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Lamonta is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamonta
      • Culver
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • 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>
      • Geneva ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Geneva is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva
      • Grizzly
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Grizzly is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grizzly
      • Grandview ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Grandview is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandview
      • Metolius
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Madras
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Madras is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madras
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,106 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Madras <3>
      • Madras Station
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Madras Station is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madras Station
      • Seekseequa Junction
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Seekseequa Junction is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seekseequa Junction
      • Camp Sherman
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Paxton
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Paxton is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxton
      • Jumpoff Joe
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Jumpoff Joe is located in Jefferson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jumpoff Joe

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Prineville Junction) 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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