Nearest Communities to Elk,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Elk, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Elk:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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.
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.
Elk is located in Teton County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Teton County: Bonneville (ID), Fremont (ID), Teton (ID), Gallatin (MT), Fremont, Lincoln, Park & Sublette.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Elk. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Teton 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 Elk (which is Teton 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 Elk
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Teton County (where Elk resides)
- County Website: https://tetoncountywy.gov/
- County Seat for Teton: Jackson
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Elk ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Elk.
- Moran
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Colter Bay Village
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Colter Bay Village is located in Teton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colter Bay Village
- Colter Bay Village has also been known as:
- Colter Bay
- Kelly
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Beaver Creek
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Beaver Creek is located in Teton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Creek
- Grovont
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Grovont is located in Teton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grovont
- Moose
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Teton Village
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Jackson
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Moose Wilson Road
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Moose Wilson Road is located in Teton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moose Wilson Road
- Alta
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Wilson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Rafter J Ranch
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Rafter J Ranch is located in Teton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rafter J Ranch
- South Park
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- South Park is located in Teton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Park
- Teton County
- County Website: https://tetoncountyidaho.gov/
- County Seat for Teton: Driggs (ID)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Elk ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Elk.
- Darby
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Darby is located in Teton County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darby
- Driggs
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Aline ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Aline is located in Teton County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aline
- Clawson
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Clawson is located in Teton County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clawson
- Chapin
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Chapin is located in Teton County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapin
- Fox Creek
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Fox Creek is located in Teton County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Creek
- The String
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- The String is located in Teton County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The String
- Victor
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Cache
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Cache is located in Teton County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cache
- Tetonia
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
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- Elk) 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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