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

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

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.


Silver Brook is located in Lewis County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lewis County: Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Pacific, Pierce, Skamania, Thurston, Wahkiakum & Yakima.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Silver Brook. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Lewis 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 Brook (which is Lewis 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 Brook

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

  • Lewis County   (where Silver Brook resides)
    • County Website:   https://lewiscountywa.gov/
    • County Seat for Lewis:   Chehalis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Silver Brook   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Silver Brook.
      • Siler
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Siler is located in Lewis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siler
      • Vance
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Vance is located in Lewis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vance
      • Randle
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Cora
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Cora is located in Lewis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cora
      • Cispus
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Cispus is located in Lewis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cispus
      • Packwood
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Glenoma
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Kosmos ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Kosmos is located in Lewis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kosmos
      • Carlson
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Carlson is located in Lewis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlson
      • Mineral
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Morton
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Berry Patch
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Berry Patch is located in Lewis County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berry Patch
      • Continue List   (10 more) ...
        • Nesika
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
          • Nesika is located in Lewis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nesika
        • Alta Vista
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Alta Vista is located in Lewis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alta Vista
        • Riffe ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Riffe is located in Lewis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riffe
        • Swofford
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Swofford is located in Lewis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swofford
        • Bremer
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
          • Bremer is located in Lewis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bremer
        • Ajlune
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Ajlune is located in Lewis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ajlune
        • Harmony
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Harmony is located in Lewis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
        • Mossyrock
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Cinebar
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Winston
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Winston is located in Lewis County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winston
  • Pierce County
    • County Website:   https://www.piercecountywa.gov/
    • County Seat for Pierce:   Tacoma
    • Note: The northwestern boundary of the county is on Pudget Sound
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Silver Brook   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Silver Brook.
      • Longmire
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Ashford
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • National
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • National is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for National
      • Nisqually Vista
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Nisqually Vista is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nisqually Vista
      • Paradise
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Paradise is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
      • Park Junction
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Park Junction is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Junction
      • Elbe
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Reliance
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Reliance is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reliance
      • Alder
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Alder is located in Pierce County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alder
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • New Reliance
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • New Reliance is located in Pierce County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Reliance
        • Sunrise
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Sunrise is located in Pierce County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise
        • Eatonville Junction
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Eatonville Junction is located in Pierce County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eatonville Junction
        • Eatonville
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • La Grande
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Ohop Bob
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Ohop Bob is located in Pierce County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ohop Bob
  • Skamania County
  • Yakima 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Silver Brook) 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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