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Nearest Communities to Ukiah,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 starting from Ukiah.<1>

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

Ukiah is located in Umatilla County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Umatilla County: Grant, Morrow, Union, Wallowa, Benton (WA), Columbia (WA) & Walla Walla (WA).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ukiah. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Umatilla 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 Ukiah (which is Umatilla 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 Ukiah

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

  • Umatilla County   (where Ukiah resides)
    • 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 Ukiah   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ukiah.
      • Albee ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Albee was located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albee
      • Hidaway Springs
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Hidaway Springs is also located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidaway Springs
      • Gurdane
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Gurdane is also located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gurdane
      • Lehman Springs
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Lehman Springs is also located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lehman Springs
        • Lehman Springs has also been known as:
        • Lehman Hot Springs
        • Lehman
      • Nye
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Nye is also located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nye
      • Pilot Rock
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Vinson
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Vinson is also located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinson
      • McKay
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • McKay is also located in Umatilla County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKay
  • Grant County
    • County Website:   https://grantcountyoregon.net/
    • County Seat for Grant:   Canyon City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ukiah   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ukiah.
      • Dale
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Range
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Range is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Range
      • Ritter
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Caverhill ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Caverhill was located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caverhill
      • Galena
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Galena is located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
      • Susanville ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Susanville was located in Grant County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Susanville
      • Long Creek
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Morrow County
    • County Website:   https://www.morrowcountyor.gov/
    • County Seat for Morrow:   Heppner
    • Note: The Columbia River runs along the northern border of the county
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ukiah   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ukiah.
      • Heck and Gone ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Heck and Gone was located in Morrow County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heck and Gone
      • Lena
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Lena is located in Morrow County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lena
  • Union 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Ukiah) 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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