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 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: www.co.eureka.nv.us/
- County Seat for Eureka: Eureka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Eureka County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Eureka County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Eureka County
- Nearest Communities to Alpha ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alpha.
- White ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the south) - Shannon
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north) - Romano ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast) - Mineral ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north) - Mineral Hill ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mineral Hill. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Hill
- Mineral Hill is located in Eureka County
- Tonkin ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest) - Corwin ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east) - Blackburn ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackburn
- Blackburn is located in Eureka County
- Birch ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east) - Buckhorn ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest) - Nevin ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west) - Three Bar ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest) - Keystone ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west) - Diamond City ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Diamond City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond City
- Diamond City is located in Eureka County
- Elko County
- 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 Alpha ...
- Lander County
- County Seat for Lander: Battle Mountain
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Lander County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Lander County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Lander County
- Nearest Communities to Alpha ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alpha.
- Cortez ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cortez
- Cortez is located in Lander County
- Hiller ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- White Pine County
- County Website: www.co.white-pine.nv.us/
- County Seat for White Pine: Ely
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- White Pine County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- White Pine County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- White Pine County
- Nearest Communities to Alpha ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Alpha.
- Simonsen ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast) - Strawberry ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Strawberry have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strawberry
- Strawberry is located in White Pine County
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Alpha) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Alpha. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0099, Longitude: -116.1925 In this case, the coordinates for Alpha have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |