Nearest Communities to Galt,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Galt, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Galt:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 Galt.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Galt is located in Lincoln County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Mohave (AZ), Clark, Nye, White Pine, Beaver (UT), Iron (UT), Millard (UT) & Washington (UT).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Galt. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Lincoln County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Galt (which is Lincoln 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 Galt
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lincoln County (where Galt resides)
- County Website: https://lincolncountynv.org/
- County Seat for Lincoln: Pioche
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Galt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Galt.
- Angle City ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Angle City is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angle City
- Hoya
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Hoya is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoya
- Carp ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Carp is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carp
- Former name for Carp:
- Cliffdale
- Rox
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Rox is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rox
- Kiernan ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Kiernan is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiernan
- Kyle
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Kyle is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyle
- Viola ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Viola is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viola
- Elgin ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Elgin is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
- Boyd ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Boyd is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyd
- Clark County
- County Website: https://www.clarkcountynv.gov/
- County Seat for Clark: Las Vegas
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Galt ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Galt.
- Farrier
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Farrier is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farrier
- Moapa Town
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Moapa Town is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moapa Town
- Moapa
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Arrowhead
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Arrowhead is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrowhead
- Glendale
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Glendale is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale
- Hupton ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Hupton is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hupton
- Old California Crossing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- West Point ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- West Point is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Point
- Jackman
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Jackman is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackman
- Amber ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Amber is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amber
- Riverside
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Riverside is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Logandale
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Galt) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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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