Nearest Communities to Gerlach,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Gerlach, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Gerlach:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Gerlach is located in Washoe County.
The following 13 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Washoe County: Lassen (CA), Modoc (CA), Nevada (CA), Placer (CA), Sierra (CA), Carson City, Churchill, Humboldt, Lyon, Pershing, Storey, Harney (OR) & Lake (OR).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 12 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Gerlach. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Washoe 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 Gerlach (which is Washoe 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 Gerlach
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Washoe County (where Gerlach resides)
- County Website: www.co.washoe.nv.us/
- County Seat for Washoe: Reno
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Washoe County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Washoe County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Washoe County
- Nearest Communities to Gerlach ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Gerlach.
- Gerlach - Empire
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerlach - Empire
- Gerlach - Empire is located in Washoe County
- Empire
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
- Empire is located in Washoe County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Empire <3>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Empire
- From Gerlach to Empire
- Phil
(5 miles [8 km] to the west) - Deep Hole ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Deep Hole. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Hole
- Deep Hole is located in Washoe County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Deep Hole
- From Gerlach to Deep Hole
- Hot Springs ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
- Hot Springs is located in Washoe County
- Reynard
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest) - Buffalo Meadows ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buffalo Meadows have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Meadows
- Buffalo Meadows is located in Washoe County
- Smoke Creek
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Smoke Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoke Creek
- Smoke Creek is located in Washoe County
- Sano
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Sheepshead
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sheepshead have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheepshead
- Sheepshead is located in Washoe County
- Pershing County
- County Seat for Pershing: Lovelock
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Pershing County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Pershing County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Pershing County
- Nearest Communities to Gerlach ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Gerlach.
- Trego
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast) - Hualipi ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
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- Gerlach) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Gerlach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6530, Longitude: -119.3575 |
| <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. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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> | 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. |