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Nearest Communities to Ritter,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Ritter.<1>

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

Ritter 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 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ritter. Of these communities, 8 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 Ritter (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 Ritter

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

  • Grant County   (where Ritter resides)
    • County Seat for Grant:   Canyon City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ritter   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ritter.
      • Caverhill ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Caverhill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caverhill
        • Caverhill is located in Grant County
      • Range
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Range have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Range
        • Range is located in Grant County
      • Dale
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Long Creek
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Hamilton
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Monument
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Fox
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Waterbury Mill
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • 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
      • Fox Mill
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • 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
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Beech Creek
          (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
          • 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
        • Galena
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Courtrock
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Courtrock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courtrock
          • Courtrock is located in Grant County
        • Susanville ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Kimberly
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Erickson Mill
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Erickson Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erickson Mill
          • Erickson Mill is located in Grant County
  • Morrow County
    • County Website:   www.morrowcountyoregon.com/
    • County Seat for Morrow:   Heppner
    • Note: The Columbia River runs along the northern border of the county
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ritter   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ritter.
      • Heck and Gone ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Parkers Mill
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Parkers Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkers Mill
        • Parkers Mill is located in Morrow County
      • Reeds Mill
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reeds Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeds Mill
        • Reeds Mill is located in Morrow County
  • Umatilla County
    • County Website:   www.co.umatilla.or.us/
    • County Seat for Umatilla:   Pendleton
    • Note: The Columbia River runs along the northwestern border of the county
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ritter   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ritter.
      • Ukiah
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ukiah have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ukiah
        • Ukiah is located in Umatilla County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 194 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ukiah <4>
      • Albee ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Albee have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albee
        • Albee is located in Umatilla County
      • Hidaway Springs
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hidaway Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidaway Springs
        • Hidaway Springs is located in Umatilla County
      • Gurdane
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gurdane have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gurdane
        • Gurdane is located in Umatilla County
      • Lehman Springs
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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 from Point A (ie- Ritter) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ritter. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.8912, Longitude: -119.1437       In this case, the coordinates for Ritter 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.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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