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Nearest Communities to Silver Beach,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.<1>

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

Silver Beach is located in Yakima County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Yakima County: Benton, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lewis, Pierce & Skamania.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Silver Beach. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Yakima 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 Silver Beach (which is Yakima 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 Silver Beach

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

  • Yakima County   (where Silver Beach resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.yakimacounty.us/
    • County Seat for Yakima:   Yakima
    • Note: The Columbia River runs along the northeastern border of the county
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Silver Beach   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Silver Beach.
      • Rimrock
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Rimrock is located in Yakima County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rimrock
      • White Pass
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Goose Prairie
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Goose Prairie is located in Yakima County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goose Prairie
      • Nile
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Nile is located in Yakima County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nile
      • Tampico
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Tampico is located in Yakima County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tampico
      • Pinecliff
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Pinecliff is located in Yakima County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinecliff
      • Cliffdell
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Cliffdell is located in Yakima County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cliffdell
      • Tasker
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Tasker is located in Yakima County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tasker
      • Tieton
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • American River
        (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • American River is located in Yakima County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for American River
      • Holtzinger
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Holtzinger is located in Yakima County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holtzinger
      • Cowiche
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (16 more) ...
        • Gromore
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Gromore is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gromore
        • Tietonview Grange
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Tietonview Grange is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tietonview Grange
        • Naches
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Cougar Valley
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Cougar Valley is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cougar Valley
        • Wenas
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Wenas is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wenas
        • Elliott Ave
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Elliott Ave is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliott Ave
        • Harwood
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Harwood is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harwood
        • Weikel
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Weikel is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weikel
        • Eschbach
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Eschbach is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eschbach
        • Summitview
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Summitview is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summitview
        • Wiley City
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Wiley City is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiley City
        • Ahtanum
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Ahtanum is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ahtanum
        • Gleed
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Willy Dick Crossing
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Willy Dick Crossing is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willy Dick Crossing
        • West Valley
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • West Valley is located in Yakima County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Valley
        • White Swan
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Lewis County
  • Pierce 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Silver Beach) 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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