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Nearest Communities to Jacobsville,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Jacobsville, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Jacobsville:

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 starting from Jacobsville.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.


Although our information shows that the community of Jacobsville is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Lander County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lander County: Churchill, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Nye & Pershing.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Jacobsville. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Lander County.

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 Jacobsville (which is Lander 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 Jacobsville

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Lander County   (where Jacobsville resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.landercountynv.org/
    • County Seat for Lander:   Battle Mountain
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Jacobsville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Jacobsville.
      • Skookum ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
        • Skookum was located in Lander County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skookum
      • Gweenah ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Gweenah was located in Lander County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gweenah
      • Canon City ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Canon City was located in Lander County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canon City
      • Austin
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Clifton ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Amador ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Amador was located in Lander County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amador
      • Yankee Blade ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Lander City ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Lander City was located in Lander County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lander City
      • Clinton ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Clinton was located in Lander County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
      • Canyon City ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Canyon City was located in Lander County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon City
      • Geneva ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Geneva was located in Lander County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva
      • Mount Airy ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Mount Airy was located in Lander County
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      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Watertown ‑ Historic
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
          • Watertown was located in Lander County
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        • Petersons Mill
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
          • Petersons Mill is also located in Lander County
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        • Curtis ‑ Historic
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
          • Curtis was located in Lander County
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        • Ravenswood ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
          • Ravenswood was located in Lander County
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        • Adits Mill ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
          • Adits Mill was located in Lander County
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        • Kingston
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Pedro ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Pedro was located in Lander County
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        • Grass Valley ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Grass Valley was located in Lander County
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        • Lakeview ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Lakeview was located in Lander County
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        • Maestretti ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Maestretti was located in Lander County
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        • Spencer ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Spencer was located in Lander County
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  • Churchill County
  • Nye County
    • County Website:   https://www.nyecountynv.gov/
    • County Seat for Nye:   Tonopah
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Jacobsville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Jacobsville.
      • Victorine ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Washington ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Washington was located in Nye County
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      • San Juan ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • San Juan was located in Nye County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Juan
      • Junction ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Junction was located in Nye County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junction

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Jacobsville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Jacobsville, 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.
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