Nearest Communities to Portage,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Portage, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Portage:
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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Portage.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Portage is located in Skagit County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Skagit County: Chelan, Island, Okanogan, San Juan, Snohomish & Whatcom.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Portage. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Skagit 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 Portage (which is Skagit 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 Portage
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Skagit County (where Portage resides)
- County Website: https://www.skagitcounty.net/
- County Seat for Skagit: Mount Vernon
- Note: The western boundary of the county is on Pudget Sound
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Portage ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Portage.
- Marblemount
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Corkindale
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Corkindale is located in Skagit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corkindale
- Rockport
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Sauk
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Sauk is located in Skagit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sauk
- Nestos ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Nestos is located in Skagit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nestos
- Van Horn
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Van Horn is located in Skagit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Horn
- Concrete
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Grassmere
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Grassmere is located in Skagit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassmere
- Mansford
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Mansford is located in Skagit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mansford
- Birdsview
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Birdsview is located in Skagit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birdsview
- Hamilton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Hamilton Junction
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Hamilton Junction is located in Skagit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton Junction
- Lyman
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- 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 Portage ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Portage.
- Andron
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Andron is located in Snohomish County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andron
- Barco
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Barco is located in Snohomish County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barco
- Darrington
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Swede Heaven
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Swede Heaven is located in Snohomish County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swede Heaven
- Fortson
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Fortson is located in Snohomish County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fortson
- White Horse
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- White Horse is located in Snohomish County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Horse
- Tulker
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Tulker is located in Snohomish County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulker
- Hazel
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Hazel is located in Snohomish County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazel
- Rowan
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Rowan is located in Snohomish County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowan
- Whatcom County
- County Website: https://www.whatcomcounty.us/
- County Seat for Whatcom: Bellingham
- Note: The western boundary of the county is on Pudget Sound and the Canadian Province of British Columbia lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Portage ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Portage.
- Newhalem
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Newhalem is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newhalem
- Diablo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Diablo is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diablo
- Ruby ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Ruby is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby
- Cedar Crossing
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Cedar Crossing is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Crossing
- Anacortes Crossing
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Anacortes Crossing is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anacortes Crossing
- Boundary
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Boundary is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boundary
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 from Point A (ie- Portage) 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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