Nearest Communities to Smith Place,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Smith Place, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Smith Place:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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 starting from Smith Place.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Smith Place is located in Jefferson County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jefferson County: Clallam, Grays Harbor, Island, Kitsap & Mason.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 22 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Smith Place. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Jefferson 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 Smith Place (which is Jefferson 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 Smith Place
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Jefferson County (where Smith Place resides)
- County Website: www.co.jefferson.wa.us/
- County Seat for Jefferson: Port Townsend
- Note: The western boundary of the county is on the Pacific Ocean and on the east is Pudget Sound
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Washington
- Jefferson County
- From Family Search:
- State of Washington
- Jefferson County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Washington
- Jefferson County
- Nearest Communities to Smith Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Smith Place.
- Clearwater
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearwater
- Clearwater is located in Jefferson County
- Queets
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest) - Kalaloch
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west) - Hoh
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Oil City
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Clallam County
- County Website: www.clallam.net/
- County Seat for Clallam: Port Angeles
- Note: The western boundary of the county is on the Pacific Ocean and to the north is the Strait of Juan de Fuca
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Washington
- Clallam County
- From Family Search:
- State of Washington
- Clallam County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Washington
- Clallam County
- Nearest Communities to Smith Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Smith Place.
- Olympic Hot Springs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Olympic Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olympic Hot Springs
- Olympic Hot Springs is located in Clallam County
- Whiskey Bend
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whiskey Bend have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiskey Bend
- Whiskey Bend is located in Clallam County
- Windy Arm
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast) - Fairholm
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north) - Ovington
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north) - Forks
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forks
- Forks is located in Clallam County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,914 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Forks <4>
- Crescent
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north) - Piedmont
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north) - Snug Harbor
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Snug Harbor have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snug Harbor
- Snug Harbor is located in Clallam County
- Grays Harbor County
- County Website: www.co.grays-harbor.wa.us/
- County Seat for Grays Harbor: Montesano
- Note: The western boundary of the county is on the Pacific Ocean
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Washington
- Grays Harbor County
- From Family Search:
- State of Washington
- Grays Harbor County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Washington
- Grays Harbor County
- Nearest Communities to Smith Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Smith Place.
- Norwood
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast) - Amanda Park
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amanda Park
- Amanda Park is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Amanda Park <4>
- Quinault
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinault
- Quinault is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Quinault <4>
- Neilton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south) - Weatherwax
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weatherwax have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weatherwax
- Weatherwax is located in Grays Harbor County
- Grisdale ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - Taholah
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taholah
- Taholah is located in Grays Harbor County
- Humptulips
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humptulips
- Humptulips is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Humptulips <4>
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- Smith Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Smith Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.6584, Longitude: -123.9313 In this case, the coordinates for Smith Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |