Nearest Communities to Watson,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Watson, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Watson:
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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Watson is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Malheur County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Malheur County: Canyon (ID), Owyhee (ID), Payette (ID), Washington (ID), Humboldt (NV), Baker, Grant & Harney.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Watson. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Malheur 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 Watson (which is Malheur 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 Watson
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Malheur County (where Watson resides)
- County Website: https://www.malheurco.org/
- County Seat for Malheur: Vale
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Watson ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Watson.
- The Indian Trails
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- The Indian Trails is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Indian Trails
- Rockville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Rockville is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockville
- The Big Horse Trails
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- The Big Horse Trails is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Big Horse Trails
- Rocky Ford
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Rocky Ford is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
- Buckboard
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Buckboard is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckboard
- Skull Spring
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Skull Spring is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skull Spring
- Crowley
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Crowley is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crowley
- Sheaville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Sheaville is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheaville
- Danner ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Danner is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danner
- Duck Pond
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Duck Pond is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duck Pond
- Arock
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Creston
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Creston is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston
- Owyhee County
- County Website: https://owyheecounty.net/
- County Seat for Owyhee: Murphy (ID)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Watson ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Watson.
- Rockville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Rockville is located in Owyhee County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockville
- Sands ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Sands is located in Owyhee County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sands
- Owyhee Heights
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Owyhee Heights is located in Owyhee County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owyhee Heights
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Watson) 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 Watson, 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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