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Nearest Communities to Black Horse,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 from Black Horse.<1>

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


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

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of White Pine County: Elko, Eureka, Lincoln, Nye, Juab (UT), Millard (UT) & Tooele (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Black Horse. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than White Pine 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 Black Horse (which is White Pine 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 Horse

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

  • White Pine County   (where Black Horse resides)
    • County Website:   https://whitepinecounty.net/
    • County Seat for White Pine:   Ely
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Black Horse   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Black Horse.
      • San Pedro ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • San Pedro is located in White Pine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pedro
      • Osceola ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Osceola is located in White Pine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
      • Hogum ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Hogum is located in White Pine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogum
      • Baker
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Cleveland ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Cleveland is located in White Pine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
      • Taft ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Taft is located in White Pine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taft
      • Cooper ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Cooper is located in White Pine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooper
      • Yelland ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Yelland is located in White Pine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yelland
      • Majors Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Majors Place is located in White Pine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Majors Place
      • McCoy ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • McCoy is located in White Pine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCoy
      • Shoshone ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Shoshone is located in White Pine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone
      • Minerva ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Minerva is located in White Pine County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minerva
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Taylor ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Taylor is located in White Pine County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
        • Robinson ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
          • Robinson is located in White Pine County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson
        • Bassett ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Bassett is located in White Pine County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bassett
        • Tamerlane ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Tamerlane is located in White Pine County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tamerlane
        • Piermont ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Piermont is located in White Pine County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piermont
        • Adverse ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Adverse is located in White Pine County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adverse
        • Lavon
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
          • Lavon is located in White Pine County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavon
        • Mosier
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Mosier is located in White Pine County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mosier
  • Millard County

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Black Horse) 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 Horse, 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.
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