Nearest Communities to Skull Spring,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Skull Spring, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Skull Spring:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 starting from Skull Spring.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Skull Spring is located in Malheur County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Malheur County: Canyon (ID), Owyhee (ID), Payette (ID), Washington (ID), Humboldt (NV), Baker, Grant & Harney.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Skull Spring. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Malheur 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 Skull Spring (which is Malheur 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 Skull Spring
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Malheur County (where Skull Spring resides)
- County Website: https://www.malheurco.org/
- County Seat for Malheur: Vale
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skull Spring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Skull Spring.
- The Big Horse Trails
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- The Big Horse Trails is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Big Horse Trails
- The Indian Trails
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- The Indian Trails is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Indian Trails
- Buckboard
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Buckboard is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckboard
- Creston
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Creston is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston
- Duck Pond
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Duck Pond is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duck Pond
- Crowley
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Crowley is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crowley
- Riverside
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Bohna ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Bohna is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bohna
- Namorf
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Namorf is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Namorf
- Watson ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Watson is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watson
- Jonesboro
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Jonesboro is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonesboro
- Juntura
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
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- Harper Junction
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Harper Junction is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harper Junction
- Harper
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Little Valley
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Little Valley is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Valley
- Cord ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Cord is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cord
- Harney County
- County Website: https://harneycountyor.gov/
- County Seat for Harney: Burns
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skull Spring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Skull Spring.
- Dunnean
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Dunnean is located in Harney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunnean
- Venator
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Venator is located in Harney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venator
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Skull Spring) 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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