Nearest Communities to Helena,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Helena, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Helena:
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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Helena is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Nye County.
The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Nye County: Inyo (CA), Churchill, Clark, Esmeralda, Eureka, Lander, Lincoln, Mineral & White Pine.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Helena.
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 Helena (which is Nye 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 Helena
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Nye County (where Helena resides)
- County Website: www.co.nye.nv.us/
- County Seat for Nye: Tonopah
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Nye County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Nye County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Nye County
- Nearest Communities to Helena ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Helena.
- Bellehelen ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bellehelen have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellehelen
- Bellehelen is located in Nye County
- Warm Springs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warm Springs
- Warm Springs is located in Nye County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Warm Springs <5>
- Golden Arrow ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Golden Arrow have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Arrow
- Golden Arrow is located in Nye County
- Eden ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south) - Ellendale ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west) - Tybo ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tybo
- Tybo is located in Nye County
- Silverbow ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south) - Old Reveille ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Reveille have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Reveille
- Old Reveille is located in Nye County
- Reveille Mill ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reveille Mill
- Reveille Mill is located in Nye County
- New Reveille ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Reveille have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Reveille
- New Reveille is located in Nye County
- Reveille ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reveille
- Reveille is located in Nye County
- Longstreet ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Longstreet have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longstreet
- Longstreet is located in Nye County
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Keystone ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north) - Hannapah ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannapah
- Hannapah is located in Nye County
- Volcano ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west) - Lower Town ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Town have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Town
- Lower Town is located in Nye County
- Upper Town ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Upper Town have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Town
- Upper Town is located in Nye County
- Mellan ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Keystone ‑ 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- Helena) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Helena. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.1377, Longitude: -116.4781 In this case, the coordinates for Helena 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 Helena, 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. |