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Nearest Communities to Starkey,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note 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.

Starkey is located in Union County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Union County: Baker, Grant, Umatilla & Wallowa.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 45 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Starkey. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Union 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 Starkey (which is Union 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 Starkey

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

  • Union County   (where Starkey resides)
    • County Website:   https://unioncountyor.gov/
    • County Seat for Union:   La Grande
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Starkey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Starkey.
      • Camp Elkanah
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
        • Camp Elkanah is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Elkanah
      • Motanic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Motanic is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Motanic
      • Bodie
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Bodie is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodie
      • Hilgard
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Kamela
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Kamela is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kamela
      • Camp Carson ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Camp Carson is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Carson
      • Perry
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Perry is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perry
      • La Grande
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Orodell ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Lone Tree
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Lone Tree is located in Union County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Tree
      • Island City
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Hot Lake
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (12 more) ...
        • Conley
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Alicel
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Alicel is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alicel
        • Union Junction
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Union Junction is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Junction
        • Crooks
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Crooks is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crooks
        • Union
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Imbler
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Summerville
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • North Powder
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Sago
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Sago is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sago
        • Cove
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Telocaset
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Telocaset is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telocaset
        • Rhinehart
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Rhinehart is located in Union County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhinehart
  • Baker County
  • Grant County
  • Umatilla County
    • County Website:   https://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 Starkey   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Starkey.
      • Lehman Springs
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Ross
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Ross is located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross
      • Hidaway Springs
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Hidaway Springs is located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidaway Springs
      • Huron
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Huron is located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huron
      • Meacham
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • North Fork
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • North Fork is located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fork
      • McKay
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • McKay is located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKay
      • Albee ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Albee is located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albee
      • Duncan
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Duncan is located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duncan
      • Ukiah
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Pilot Rock
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Tutuilla
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Tutuilla is located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tutuilla

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Starkey) 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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