Nearest Communities to Getchell,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Getchell, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Getchell:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Getchell.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Getchell is located in Humboldt County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Humboldt County: Owyhee (ID), Elko, Lander, Pershing, Washoe, Harney (OR) & Malheur (OR).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Getchell. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Humboldt 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 Getchell (which is Humboldt 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 Getchell
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Humboldt County (where Getchell resides)
- County Website: https://hcnv.us/
- County Seat for Humboldt: Winnemucca
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Getchell ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Getchell.
- Kelly Creek ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Kelly Creek is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly Creek
- Comus
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Comus is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comus
- Red House
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Red House is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red House
- Iron Point ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Iron Point is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Point
- Preble ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Preble is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Preble
- Willow Point ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Willow Point is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Point
- Golconda
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Herrin ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Herrin is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herrin
- Knight
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Knight is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knight
- Bliss ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Bliss is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bliss
- Queen City ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Queen City is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queen City
- Paradise Valley
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
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- Paradise Hill
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Paradise Hill is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Hill
- Fairview ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Fairview is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Tule
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Tule is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tule
- Gouge Eye ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Gouge Eye is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gouge Eye
- Ellison
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Ellison is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellison
- Weso
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Weso is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weso
- Spring City ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Spring City is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring City
- Winnemucca
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Valmy
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Gold Run ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Gold Run is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Run
- Elko County
- County Website: https://elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Getchell ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Getchell.
- Summit ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Summit is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
- Midas
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Midas is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midas
- Fairlawn ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Fairlawn is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairlawn
- Dutton ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Dutton is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutton
- Scraper Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Scraper Springs is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scraper Springs
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Getchell) 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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