Nearest Communities to Brown Lake,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Brown Lake, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Brown Lake:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Brown Lake.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Brown Lake is located in Okanogan County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Okanogan County: Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Skagit & Whatcom.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Brown Lake. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Okanogan 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 Brown Lake (which is Okanogan 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 Brown Lake
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Okanogan County (where Brown Lake resides)
- County Website: https://okanogancounty.org/
- County Seat for Okanogan: Okanogan
- Note: The Canadian Province of British Columbia lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Brown Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Brown Lake.
- Loop Loop ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Loop Loop is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loop Loop
- Ruby ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Ruby is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby
- Epley ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Epley is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Epley
- Omak
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Riverside
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Riverside is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Population from the 2020 Census: 274 people
- Conconully
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Okanogan
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Cherokee
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Cherokee is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee
- Mowich Illahee
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Mowich Illahee is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mowich Illahee
- North Omak
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- North Omak is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Omak
- Keystone
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Keystone is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
- Barker
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Barker is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barker
- Continue List (24 more) ...
- Chillowist
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Chillowist is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chillowist
- Malott
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Olema
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Olema is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olema
- Synarep
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Synarep is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Synarep
- Janis
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Janis is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Janis
- Ophir
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Ophir is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ophir
- Enterprise
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Enterprise is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
- Wakefield
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Wakefield is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wakefield
- Tonasket
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Disautel
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Disautel is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Disautel
- Anglin
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Anglin is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anglin
- Paradise Hill
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Paradise Hill is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Hill
- Monse
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Monse is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monse
- Thompson ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Thompson is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
- Twisp
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Loomis
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Winthrop
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Ellisforde
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Ellisforde is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellisforde
- Carlton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Brewster
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Virginia City ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Virginia City is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virginia City
- Methow
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Cordell
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Cordell is located in Okanogan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cordell
- Pateros
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Douglas County
- County Website: https://www.douglascountywa.net/
- County Seat for Douglas: Waterville
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Brown Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Brown Lake.
- Rocky Butte
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Rocky Butte is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Butte
- Brandts Landing
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Brandts Landing is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandts Landing
- Downing
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Downing is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Downing
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Brown Lake) 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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