Nearest Communities to Cortez,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Cortez, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Cortez:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Cortez.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Cortez is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Lander County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lander County: Churchill, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Nye & Pershing.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cortez. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Lander 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 Cortez (which is Lander 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 Cortez
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lander County (where Cortez resides)
- 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 Cortez ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cortez.
- Frisbie ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest) - Gold Acres ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gold Acres have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Acres
- Gold Acres is located in Lander County
- Mill Gulch ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mill Gulch have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Gulch
- Mill Gulch is located in Lander County
- Tenabo ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenabo
- Tenabo is located in Lander County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Tenabo
- From Cortez to Tenabo
- Gold Quartz
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gold Quartz have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Quartz
- Gold Quartz is located in Lander County
- Bullion ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north) - Lander ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest) - Mud Springs ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mud Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mud Springs
- Mud Springs is located in Lander County
- Hiller ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Hilltop ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest) - Maysville ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest) - Pittsburgh ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pittsburgh have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh is located in Lander County
- Pittsburgh has also been known as:
- Pittsburg
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Dean ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest) - Middletown ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Middletown have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown
- Middletown is located in Lander County
- Starr ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest) - Betty O'Neal ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Betty O'Neal have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Betty O'Neal
- Betty O'Neal is located in Lander County
- Bailey ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Dean ‑ Historic
- Eureka County
- 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 Cortez ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cortez.
- Buckhorn ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east) - Nevin ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south) - Keystone ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Tonkin ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast) - Crescent Valley
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Valley
- Crescent Valley is located in Eureka County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Crescent Valley <5>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Crescent Valley
- From Cortez to Crescent Valley
- Shannon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east) - Mineral ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east) - Alpha ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Alpha. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
- Alpha is located in Eureka County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Alpha
- From Cortez to Alpha
- Blackburn ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackburn
- Blackburn is located in Eureka County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Blackburn
- From Cortez to Blackburn
- Three Bar ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south) - Mineral Hill ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- 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.<6>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral Hill
- Mineral Hill is located in Eureka County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Mineral Hill
- From Cortez to Mineral Hill
- White ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
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- Cortez) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cortez. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1416, Longitude: -116.6017 |
| <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 Cortez, 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | 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. |