Nearest Communities to Fair Play,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Fair Play, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Fair Play:
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 from Fair Play.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Fair Play 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 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fair Play.
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 Fair Play (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 Fair Play
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elko County (where Fair Play resides)
- County Website: www.elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- Nearest Communities to Fair Play ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fair Play.
- Schley ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest) - Arthur ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north) - Lamoille
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamoille
- Lamoille is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lamoille <5>
- Voight ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest) - Pleasant Valley
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
- Pleasant Valley is located in Elko County
- Rock House
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock House have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock House
- Rock House is located in Elko County
- Secret ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north) - Clover ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast) - Brennen Ranch
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brennen Ranch have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brennen Ranch
- Brennen Ranch is located in Elko County
- Lee ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west) - Spring Creek
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek
- Spring Creek is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spring Creek <5>
- Ruby Valley
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby Valley
- Ruby Valley is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ruby Valley <5>
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- Warm Creek ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Warm Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warm Creek
- Warm Creek is located in Elko County
- Sprucemont
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sprucemont. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprucemont
- Sprucemont is located in Elko County
- Dry Creek ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest) - Wood ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood
- Wood is located in Elko County
- Coral Hill ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coral Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Hill
- Coral Hill is located in Elko County
- Black Forest ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Black Forest have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Forest
- Black Forest is located in Elko County
- Jiggs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jiggs
- Jiggs is located in Elko County
- Former names for Jiggs:
- Hylton
- Mound Valley
- Skelton
- Halleck ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north) - Elburz
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest) - Fort Halleck ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Halleck
- Fort Halleck is located in Elko County
- Elaine ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Tobar ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast) - Ryndon
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest) - Ruby
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast) - Ventosa ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast) - Ballous Addition
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ballous Addition have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballous Addition
- Ballous Addition is located in Elko County
- Coin ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest) - Elko Colony
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elko Colony have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elko Colony
- Elko Colony is located in Elko County
- Elko
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elko
- Elko is located in Elko County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 20,531 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elko <5>
- Osino
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest) - Cave Creek
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave Creek
- Cave Creek is located in Elko County
- Cave Creek has also been known as:
- Cavecreek
- Warm Creek ‑ Historic
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Fair Play) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fair Play. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6110, Longitude: -115.2714 In this case, the coordinates for Fair Play have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Fair Play, 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. |