Nearest Communities to Jackson,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Jackson, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Jackson:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 Jackson.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Jackson is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Box Elder County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Box Elder County: Cassia (ID), Oneida (ID), Elko (NV), Cache, Tooele & Weber.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Jackson. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Box Elder 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 Jackson (which is Box Elder 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 Jackson
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Box Elder County (where Jackson resides)
- County Website: www.boxeldercounty.org/
- County Seat for Box Elder: Brigham City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Utah
- Box Elder County
- From Family Search:
- State of Utah
- Box Elder County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Utah
- Box Elder County
- Nearest Communities to Jackson ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Jackson.
- Pigeon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west) - Bovine
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north) - Watercress Junction ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Watercress Junction. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watercress Junction
- Watercress Junction is located in Box Elder County
- Watercress Junction has also been known as:
- Watercress
- Lucin ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west) - Terrace ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast) - Grouse Creek Junction
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grouse Creek Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grouse Creek Junction
- Grouse Creek Junction is located in Box Elder County
- Boston Terrace ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Boston Terrace. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boston Terrace
- Boston Terrace is located in Box Elder County
- Matlin
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast) - Hogup
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Etna
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest) - Grouse Creek
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grouse Creek
- Grouse Creek is located in Box Elder County
- Former name for Grouse Creek:
- Grouse Creek Fort
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grouse Creek <6>
- Elko County
- County Website: www.elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko (NV)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- Nearest Communities to Jackson ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Jackson.
- Buell ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west) - Tecoma ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Montello
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montello
- Montello is located in Elko County (NV)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Montello <6>
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Jackson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Jackson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.3175, Longitude: -113.6478 |
| <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 Jackson, 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. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <6> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |