Nearest Communities to Columbia,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Columbia, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Columbia:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 east 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Columbia.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Columbia 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 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Columbia. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Elko 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 Columbia (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 Columbia
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elko County (where Columbia resides)
- County Website: https://elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Columbia ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Columbia.
- Echo
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Echo is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo
- Excelsior ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Excelsior is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Excelsior
- White Rock ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- White Rock is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock
- Deep Creek ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Deep Creek is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek
- Rio Tinto ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Rio Tinto is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Tinto
- Patsville ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Patsville is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patsville
- Mountain City
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Jack Creek ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Jack Creek is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jack Creek
- Anderson ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Anderson is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson
- Cornucopia ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cornucopia is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornucopia
- Point of Rocks
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Point of Rocks is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point of Rocks
- Jackson ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jackson is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Island Mountain ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Island Mountain is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Mountain
- Owyhee
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- North Fork ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- North Fork is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fork
- Williams Cabin
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Williams Cabin is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams Cabin
- Number One Settlement
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Tuscarora
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Good Hope ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Good Hope is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope
- Good Hope has also been known as:
- Goodhope
- Bruno City ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Bruno City is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruno City
- Bueasta ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Bueasta is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bueasta
- Rowland ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Rowland is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowland
- Old Tuscarora ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Old Tuscarora is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Tuscarora
- Bayard ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Bayard is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayard
- Charleston ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Charleston is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
- Owyhee County
- County Website: https://owyheecounty.net/
- County Seat for Owyhee: Murphy (ID)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Columbia ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Columbia.
- Dew Drop Place
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Dew Drop Place is located in Owyhee County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dew Drop Place
- Miller Creek Settlement
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- China Hat
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- China Hat is located in Owyhee County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Hat
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Columbia) 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 Columbia, 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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