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Nearest Communities to Trout Creek,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Trout Creek.<1>

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


Trout Creek is located in Harney County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Harney County: Humboldt (NV), Washoe (NV), Crook, Deschutes, Grant, Lake & Malheur.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 13 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Trout Creek. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Harney 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 Trout Creek (which is Harney 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 Trout Creek

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

  • Harney County   (where Trout Creek resides)
    • County Website:   https://harneycountyor.gov/
    • County Seat for Harney:   Burns
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Trout Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Trout Creek.
      • Van
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Van is located in Harney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van
      • Poison Creek
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Poison Creek is located in Harney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poison Creek
      • Frost Mill
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Frost Mill is located in Harney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost Mill
      • Harney
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Harney is located in Harney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harney
      • Burns
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Indian Village
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Indian Village is located in Harney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
      • Buchanan
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Buchanan is located in Harney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buchanan
      • Hines
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Drewsey
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Grant County
    • County Website:   https://grantcountyoregon.net/
    • County Seat for Grant:   Canyon City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Trout Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Trout Creek.
      • Silvies Landing
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Silvies Landing is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silvies Landing
      • Silvies
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Silvies is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silvies
      • Seneca
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Izee ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Izee is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Izee

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- Trout Creek) 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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