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 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 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 Website: https://www.landercountynv.org/
- County Seat for Lander: Battle Mountain
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Cortez ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cortez.
- Frisbie ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Frisbie is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frisbie
- Gold Acres ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Gold Acres is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Acres
- Mill Gulch ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Mill Gulch is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Gulch
- Tenabo ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Gold Quartz
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Gold Quartz is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Quartz
- Bullion ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Bullion is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullion
- Lander ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Lander is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lander
- Mud Springs ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Mud Springs is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mud Springs
- Hiller ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Hiller is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hiller
- Hilltop ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Hilltop is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
- Maysville ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Maysville is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maysville
- Pittsburgh ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Pittsburgh is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh has also been known as:
- Pittsburg
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- Dean ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Dean is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dean
- Middletown ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Middletown is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown
- Starr ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Starr is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Starr
- Betty O'Neal ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Betty O'Neal is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Betty O'Neal
- Bailey ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Bailey is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey
- Eureka County
- County Website: https://www.eurekacountynv.gov/
- County Seat for Eureka: Eureka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Cortez ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Cortez.
- Buckhorn ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Buckhorn is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhorn
- Nevin ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Nevin is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevin
- Nevin has also been known as:
- Nevins
- Keystone ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Keystone is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
- Tonkin ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Tonkin is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonkin
- Crescent Valley
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Shannon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Shannon is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shannon
- Mineral ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Mineral is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral
- Alpha ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Blackburn ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Three Bar ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Three Bar is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Bar
- Mineral Hill ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- White ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- White is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Cortez) 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 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. |
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