Nearest Communities to Seneca,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Seneca, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Seneca:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.
Keep in mind 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.
Seneca 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 11 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Seneca. Of these communities, 4 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 Seneca (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 Seneca
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Grant County (where Seneca resides)
- County Seat for Grant: Canyon City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Oregon
- Grant County
- From Family Search:
- State of Oregon
- Grant County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Oregon
- Grant County
- Nearest Communities to Seneca ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Seneca.
- Silvies
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south) - Silvies Landing
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silvies Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silvies Landing
- Silvies Landing is located in Grant County
- Canyon City
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)- 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
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for John Day
- John Day is located in Grant County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,669 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for John Day <4>
- Mount Vernon
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Vernon
- Mount Vernon is located in Grant County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 511 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mount Vernon <4>
- Izee ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west) - Prairie City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie City
- Prairie City is located in Grant County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 872 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Prairie City <4>
- Harney County
- County Website: www.co.harney.or.us/
- County Seat for Harney: Burns
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Oregon
- Harney County
- From Family Search:
- State of Oregon
- Harney County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Oregon
- Harney County
- Nearest Communities to Seneca ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Seneca.
- Trout Creek
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trout Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trout Creek
- Trout Creek is located in Harney County
- Van
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast) - Frost Mill
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frost Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost Mill
- Frost Mill is located in Harney County
- Poison Creek
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Poison Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poison Creek
- Poison Creek is located in 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 from Point A (ie- Seneca) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Seneca. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.1352, Longitude: -118.9767 In this case, the coordinates for Seneca 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. |