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Nearest Communities to Scissorsville,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Scissorsville.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Scissorsville is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Crook County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Crook County: Deschutes, Grant, Harney, Jefferson & Wheeler.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Scissorsville. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Crook County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Scissorsville (which is Crook 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 Scissorsville

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

  • Crook County   (where Scissorsville resides)
  • Jefferson County
    • County Website:   www.co.jefferson.or.us
    • County Seat for Jefferson:   Madras
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Scissorsville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Scissorsville.
      • Horse Heaven ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Kilts
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kilts have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilts
        • Kilts is located in Jefferson County
      • Donnybrook ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Donnybrook. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donnybrook
        • Donnybrook is located in Jefferson County
        • Former names for Donnybrook:
        • Axehandle
        • Kilts
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Donnybrook
        • From Scissorsville to Donnybrook
      • Jumpoff Joe
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jumpoff Joe have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jumpoff Joe
        • Jumpoff Joe is located in Jefferson County
      • Grizzly
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grizzly have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grizzly
        • Grizzly is located in Jefferson County
      • Ashwood
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Wheeler County
    • County Seat for Wheeler:   Fossil
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Scissorsville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Scissorsville.
      • Old Kelly Mill
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Kelly Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Kelly Mill
        • Old Kelly Mill is located in Wheeler County
      • Mitchell
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Spoos Mill
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spoos Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spoos Mill
        • Spoos Mill is located in Wheeler County
      • Caleb ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Caleb have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caleb
        • Caleb is located in Wheeler County
      • Twickenham ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twickenham have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twickenham
        • Twickenham is located in Wheeler County
      • Waldron ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Waterman ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Waterman have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterman
        • Waterman is located in Wheeler County
      • Antone ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Antone have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antone
        • Antone is located in Wheeler County
      • Richmond ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Richmond. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond
        • Richmond is located in Wheeler County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Richmond
        • From Scissorsville to Richmond

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Scissorsville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Scissorsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.4214, Longitude: -120.3559    
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Scissorsville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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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