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Nearest Communities to Ritzville,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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 Ritzville.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Ritzville is located in Adams County and is the County Seat.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Adams County: Franklin, Grant, Lincoln & Whitman.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 65 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ritzville. Of these communities, 24 are located in counties other than Adams 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 Ritzville (which is Adams 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 Ritzville

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

  • Adams County   (where Ritzville resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.adams.wa.us/
    • County Seat for Adams:   Ritzville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ritzville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ritzville.
      • Marcellus
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Marcellus is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcellus
      • Tokio ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Tokio is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tokio
      • Packard ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Packard is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packard
      • Paha ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Hillcrest
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Hillcrest is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest
      • Ralston ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Ralston is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ralston
      • Teske
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Teske is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teske
      • Schoonover
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Schoonover is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schoonover
      • Marengo
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Marengo is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marengo
      • Emden
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Emden is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emden
      • Pizarro
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Pizarro is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pizarro
      • Carlmar
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Carlmar is located in Adams County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlmar
      • Continue List   (29 more) ...
        • Keystone
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
          • Keystone is located in Adams County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
        • Thavis
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
          • Thavis is located in Adams County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thavis
        • Ashby
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
          • Ashby is located in Adams County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashby
        • Jantz
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Jantz is located in Adams County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jantz
        • Bemis
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
          • Bemis is located in Adams County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bemis
        • Reiman
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Reiman is located in Adams County
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        • Lind
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Pifer
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Pifer is located in Adams County
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        • Rockwell
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
          • Rockwell is located in Adams County
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        • Mack
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
          • Mack is located in Adams County
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        • Lauer
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
          • Lauer is located in Adams County
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        • Palm Lake
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
          • Palm Lake is located in Adams County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Lake
        • Paxton
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
          • Paxton is located in Adams County
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        • Fletcher
          (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
          • Fletcher is located in Adams County
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        • Benge ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Benge is located in Adams County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benge
        • Ankeny
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Ankeny is located in Adams County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ankeny
        • Batum
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
          • Batum is located in Adams County
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        • Providence
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Servia
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
          • Servia is located in Adams County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Servia
        • Schrag
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Schrag is located in Adams County
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        • Beatrice
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Beatrice is located in Adams County
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        • Washtucna
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Roxboro
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Roxboro is located in Adams County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxboro
        • Hooper
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Hooper is located in Adams County
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        • Moody
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Moody is located in Adams County
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        • Weber
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Weber is located in Adams County
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        • Hooper Junction
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
          • Hooper Junction is located in Adams County
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        • Warden Hutterian Brethren
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Cunningham
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Franklin County
  • Grant County
  • Lincoln County
  • Spokane County
  • Whitman 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Ritzville) 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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