Nearest Communities to Browns Station,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Browns Station, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Browns Station:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Browns Station.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Browns Station<2> is historic,<3> it would have been located within present day Pershing County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pershing County: Churchill, Humboldt, Lander & Washoe.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Browns Station. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Pershing County.
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 Browns Station (which is Pershing 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 Browns Station
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Pershing County (where Browns Station resides)
- County Website: https://pershingcounty.net/
- County Seat for Pershing: Lovelock
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Browns Station ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Browns Station.
- Toy ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Toy is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toy
- Toulon ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Toulon is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toulon
- Granite Point ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Granite Point is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite Point
- Perth
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Perth is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perth
- Lovelock
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Kodak
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Kodak is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kodak
- Colado ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Colado is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colado
- Clarksville ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Clarksville is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarksville
- Loring ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Loring is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loring
- Woolsey ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Woolsey is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woolsey
- Sanborn ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Sanborn is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanborn
- Vernon ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Vernon is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernon
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- Arabia
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Arabia is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arabia
- Oreana ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Oreana is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oreana
- Tunnel Camp ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Tunnel Camp is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunnel Camp
- Torreytown ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Torreytown is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreytown
- Nightingale ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Nightingale is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nightingale
- Mazuma ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Mazuma is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mazuma
- Foltz ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Foltz is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foltz
- Zola ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Zola is located in Pershing County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zola
- Churchill County
- County Website: https://www.churchillcountynv.gov/
- County Seat for Churchill: Fallon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Browns Station ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Browns Station.
- Miriam
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Miriam is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miriam
- Cressid ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Cressid is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cressid
- Trinity
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Trinity is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trinity
- Ocala
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Ocala is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocala
- Huxley ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Huxley is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huxley
- Jessup ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jessup is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessup
- Parran
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Parran is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parran
- Fillmore ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Fillmore is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fillmore
- Clemens ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Clemens is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clemens
- Coppereid ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Coppereid is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coppereid
- Leete ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Leete is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leete
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Browns Station) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Browns Station may originally have been Brown's Station. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Browns Station might be written as Brown Station. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Browns Station. |
| <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 Browns Station, 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. |
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