Nearest Communities to Black Forest,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Black Forest, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Black Forest:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Black Forest.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Black Forest is historic,<2> 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 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Black Forest.
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 Black Forest (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 Black Forest
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elko County (where Black Forest resides)
- County Website: https://elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Black Forest ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Black Forest.
- Sprucemont
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Sprucemont is also located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprucemont
- Elaine ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Elaine was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elaine
- Dolly Varden ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Dolly Varden was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolly Varden
- Mizpah
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mizpah is also located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mizpah
- Hogan ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hogan was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogan
- Hogan has also been known as:
- Hogen
- Spruce ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Spruce was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spruce
- Clover ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Clover was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover
- Decoy ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Decoy was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Decoy
- Ventosa ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Ventosa was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ventosa
- Sage
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Sage is also located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage
- Warm Creek ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Warm Creek was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warm Creek
- Currie
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Currie is also located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Currie
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Tobar ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Tobar was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tobar
- Fair Play ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Fair Play was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Play
- Arthur ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Arthur was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arthur
- Wood ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Wood was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood
- Schley ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Schley was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schley
- Shafter ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Shafter was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shafter
- Secret ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Secret was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Secret
- Goshute ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Goshute was located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshute
- Goshute has also been known as:
- Goshiute Station
- Goshute Station
- Gosiute
- Ruby
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Ruby is also located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby
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- Black Forest) 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 Black Forest, 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. |