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Nearest Communities to Spoos Mill,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Spoos Mill is located in Wheeler County.

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

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Spoos Mill. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Wheeler 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 Spoos Mill (which is Wheeler 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 Spoos Mill

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

  • Wheeler County   (where Spoos Mill resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.wheelercountyoregon.com/
    • County Seat for Wheeler:   Fossil
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Spoos Mill   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Spoos Mill.
      • Caleb ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • Caleb is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caleb
      • Antone ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Antone is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antone
      • Waterman ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Waterman is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterman
      • Mitchell
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Richmond ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Richmond is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond
      • Waldron ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Waldron is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldron
      • Old Kelly Mill
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Old Kelly Mill is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Kelly Mill
      • Twickenham ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Twickenham is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twickenham
      • Service Creek
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Service Creek is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Service Creek
      • Spray
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Winlock
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Winlock is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winlock
  • Crook County
  • Grant County
  • Jefferson 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Spoos Mill) 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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