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Nearest Communities to Dutton,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 Dutton.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Dutton 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 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Dutton. Of these communities, 7 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 Dutton (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 Dutton

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

  • Elko County   (where Dutton resides)
    • County Website:   https://elkocountynv.net/
    • County Seat for Elko:   Elko
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dutton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Dutton.
      • Fairlawn ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Fairlawn is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairlawn
      • Midas
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Midas is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midas
      • Summit ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Summit is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
      • Scraper Springs
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Scraper Springs is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scraper Springs
      • Good Hope ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Good Hope is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope
        • Good Hope has also been known as:
        • Goodhope
      • Old Tuscarora ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Old Tuscarora is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Tuscarora
      • Tuscarora
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Eureka County
  • Humboldt County
    • County Website:   https://hcnv.us/
    • County Seat for Humboldt:   Winnemucca
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dutton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Dutton.
      • Kelly Creek ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Kelly Creek is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly Creek
      • Getchell
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Getchell is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Getchell
      • Knight
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Knight is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knight
      • Red House
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Red House is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red House
      • Ellison
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Ellison is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellison

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Dutton) 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 Dutton, 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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