Nearest Communities to Twickenham,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Twickenham, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Twickenham:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Twickenham.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Twickenham is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day 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 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Twickenham. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Wheeler County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Twickenham (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 Twickenham
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Wheeler County (where Twickenham resides)
- County Website: https://www.wheelercountyoregon.com/
- County Seat for Wheeler: Fossil
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Twickenham ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Twickenham.
- Waldron ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Waldron is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldron
- Richmond ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Richmond is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond
- Service Creek
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Service Creek is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Service Creek
- Mitchell
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Waterman ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Waterman is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterman
- Fossil
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Kinzua ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Kinzua is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinzua
- Winlock
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Winlock is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winlock
- Old Kelly Mill
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Old Kelly Mill is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Kelly Mill
- Spoos Mill
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Spoos Mill is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spoos Mill
- Spray
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Caleb ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Caleb is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caleb
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Cone Mill
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Cone Mill is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cone Mill
- Wetmore
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Wetmore is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wetmore
- Edwards
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Edwards is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards
- Lost Valley ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Lost Valley is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Valley
- Antone ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Antone is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antone
- Crook County
- County Website: https://co.crook.or.us/
- County Seat for Crook: Prineville
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Twickenham ...
- Scissorsville ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Scissorsville is located in Crook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scissorsville
- Gilliam County
- County Website: https://www.gilliamcountyor.gov/
- County Seat for Gilliam: Condon
- Note: The Columbia River runs along the northern border of the county
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Twickenham ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Twickenham.
- Mayville
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Mayville is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayville
- Trail Fork ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Trail Fork is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail Fork
- Lonerock
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lonerock is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lonerock
- Population from the 2020 Census: 22 people
- Thirtymile
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Thirtymile is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thirtymile
- Grant County
- Jefferson County
- County Website: https://www.jeffco.net/
- County Seat for Jefferson: Madras
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Twickenham ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Twickenham.
- Horse Heaven ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Horse Heaven is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horse Heaven
- Kilts
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Kilts is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilts
- Donnybrook ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Donnybrook is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donnybrook
- Former names for Donnybrook:
- Axehandle
- Kilts
- Ashwood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Wasco County
- County Website: https://www.co.wasco.or.us/
- County Seat for Wasco: The Dalles
- Note: The Columbia River runs along the northern border of the county
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Twickenham ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Twickenham.
- Clarno
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Clarno is located in Wasco County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarno
- Antelope
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Twickenham) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Twickenham, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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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