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Nearest Communities to Merritt,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

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.

Merritt is located in Chelan County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chelan County: Douglas, King, Kittitas, Okanogan, Skagit & Snohomish.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 34 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Merritt. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Chelan 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 Merritt (which is Chelan 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 Merritt

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

  • Chelan County   (where Merritt resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.chelan.wa.us/
    • County Seat for Chelan:   Wenatchee
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Merritt   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Merritt.
      • Nason Creek
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Nason Creek is located in Chelan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nason Creek
      • Telma
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Telma is located in Chelan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telma
      • Coles Corner
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Coles Corner is located in Chelan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coles Corner
      • Winton
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Winton is located in Chelan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winton
      • Berne
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Berne is located in Chelan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berne
      • Chiwaukum
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Chiwaukum is located in Chelan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chiwaukum
      • Plain
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Chumstick
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Chumstick is located in Chelan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chumstick
      • Leavenworth
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Peshastin
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Trinity ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Trinity is located in Chelan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trinity
      • Dryden
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Continue List   (13 more) ...
        • Ardenvoir
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Cashmere
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Farris
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Farris is located in Chelan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farris
        • Blewett ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Blewett is located in Chelan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blewett
        • Monitor
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Entiat
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Winesap
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Winesap is located in Chelan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winesap
        • Holden
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
          • Holden is located in Chelan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holden
        • Granite Falls
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Granite Falls is located in Chelan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite Falls
        • Hollywood Beach
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Hollywood Beach is located in Chelan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollywood Beach
        • Shrine Beach
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Shrine Beach is located in Chelan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shrine Beach
        • Domke Lake Resort
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Domke Lake Resort is located in Chelan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Domke Lake Resort
        • Wagnersburg
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Wagnersburg is located in Chelan County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagnersburg
  • Douglas County
  • King County
  • Snohomish County
    • County Website:   https://snohomishcountywa.gov/
    • County Seat for Snohomish:   Everett
    • Note: The western boundary of the county is on Pudget Sound
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Merritt   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Merritt.
      • Galena
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Galena is located in Snohomish County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
      • Monte Cristo ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Monte Cristo is located in Snohomish County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monte Cristo
      • Halford
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Halford is located in Snohomish County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halford
  • Stevens 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Merritt) 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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