Nearest Communities to Afton,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Afton, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Afton:
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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Afton.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Afton<2> is historic,<3> it would have been located within present day Elko County.
The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Elko County: Cassia (ID), Owyhee (ID), Twin Falls (ID), Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, White Pine, Box Elder (UT) & Tooele (UT).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Afton.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<4> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Afton (which is Elko 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 Afton
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elko County (where Afton resides)
- County Website: www.elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- Nearest Communities to Afton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Afton.
- Morton ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest) - Schoer Place
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Schoer Place have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schoer Place
- Schoer Place is located in Elko County
- Morlan ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north) - Shores ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east) - Metropolis ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metropolis
- Metropolis is located in Elko County
- Wilkins ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east) - Melandco ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast) - O'Neil ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north) - Henry ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast) - Riverside ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast) - Charleston ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Charleston have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
- Charleston is located in Elko County
- Alazon ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south) - Continue List (11 more) ...
- Tulasco ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south) - Bayard ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest) - Welcome
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south) - Wells
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells
- Wells is located in Elko County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,254 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wells <6>
- Contact ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Contact
- Contact is located in Elko County
- Deeth
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deeth
- Deeth is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deeth <6>
- Holborn ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast) - Moor
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast) - Bruno City ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bruno City have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruno City
- Bruno City is located in Elko County
- Pavlak ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest) - Fenelon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Tulasco ‑ Historic
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Afton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Afton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.4812, Longitude: -115.1125 In this case, the coordinates for Afton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <2> | Afton is also known as Taber City. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Afton. |
| <3> | 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 Afton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |