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Nearest Communities to Alpha,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Alpha.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Alpha is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Eureka County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Eureka County: Elko, Lander, Nye & White Pine.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Alpha. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Eureka County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Alpha (which is Eureka 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 Alpha

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

  • Eureka County   (where Alpha resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.eurekacountynv.gov/
    • County Seat for Eureka:   Eureka
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Alpha   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Alpha.
      • White ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • White is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
      • Shannon
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Shannon is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shannon
      • Romano ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Romano is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romano
      • Mineral ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Mineral is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral
      • Mineral Hill ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Tonkin ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Tonkin is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonkin
      • Corwin ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Corwin is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corwin
      • Blackburn ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Birch ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Birch is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birch
      • Buckhorn ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Buckhorn is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhorn
      • Nevin ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Nevin is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevin
        • Nevin has also been known as:
        • Nevins
      • Three Bar ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Three Bar is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Bar
      • Keystone ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Keystone is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
      • Diamond City ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Diamond City is located in Eureka County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond City
  • Elko County
  • Lander County
  • White Pine County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Alpha) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Alpha, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.