Nearest Communities to Ruby,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ruby, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ruby:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Ruby is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Whatcom County.
The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Whatcom County: Okanogan, San Juan & Skagit.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 11 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ruby. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Whatcom 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 Ruby (which is Whatcom 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 Ruby
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Whatcom County (where Ruby resides)
- County Website: www.co.whatcom.wa.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 ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Washington
- Whatcom County
- From Family Search:
- State of Washington
- Whatcom County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Washington
- Whatcom County
- Nearest Communities to Ruby ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ruby.
- Diablo
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest) - Newhalem
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest) - Anacortes Crossing
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Anacortes Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anacortes Crossing
- Anacortes Crossing is located in Whatcom County
- Cedar Crossing
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Crossing
- Cedar Crossing is located in Whatcom County
- Barron ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east) - Boundary
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Okanogan County
- County Website: www.okanogancounty.org/
- County Seat for Okanogan: Okanogan
- Note: The Canadian Province of British Columbia lies to the north
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Washington
- Okanogan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Washington
- Okanogan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Washington
- Okanogan County
- Nearest Communities to Ruby ...
- Skagit County
- County Website: www.skagitcounty.net/
- County Seat for Skagit: Mount Vernon
- Note: The western boundary of the county is on Pudget Sound
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Washington
- Skagit County
- From Family Search:
- State of Washington
- Skagit County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Washington
- Skagit County
- Nearest Communities to Ruby ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ruby.
- Portage
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest) - Marblemount
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marblemount
- Marblemount is located in Skagit County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marblemount <5>
- Corkindale
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Corkindale have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corkindale
- Corkindale is located in Skagit County
- Rockport
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockport
- Rockport is located in Skagit County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rockport <5>
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- Ruby) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ruby. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.7374, Longitude: -121.0623 In this case, the coordinates for Ruby have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Ruby, 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |