Nearest Communities to Stearns,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Stearns, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Stearns:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 from Stearns.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Stearns is located in Deschutes County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Deschutes County: Crook, Harney, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Lane & Linn.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Stearns. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Deschutes 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 Stearns (which is Deschutes 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 Stearns
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Deschutes County (where Stearns resides)
- County Website: https://www.deschutes.org/
- County Seat for Deschutes: Bend
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Stearns ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Stearns.
- Three Rivers
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Three Rivers is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Rivers
- Sunriver
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- La Pine
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Lava
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Lava is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lava
- Deschutes River Woods
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Deschutes River Woods is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes River Woods
- Bend
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Bend is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
- Population from the 2020 Census: 101,886 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bend <3>
- Elk Lake
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Elk Lake is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Lake
- Tumalo
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Tumalo is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumalo
- Millican ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Millican is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millican
- Deschutes Junction
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Deschutes Junction is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes Junction
- Deschutes
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Deschutes is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes
- Alfalfa
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Klamath County
- County Website: https://www.klamathcounty.org/
- County Seat for Klamath: Klamath Falls
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Stearns ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Stearns.
- Beal
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Beal is located in Klamath County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beal
- Gilchrist
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Crescent
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Crescent Lake Junction
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Odell Lake
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Odell Lake is located in Klamath County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odell Lake
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Stearns) 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. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |