Nearest Communities to Jersey,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Jersey, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Jersey:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Jersey.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Jersey is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Pershing County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pershing County: Churchill, Humboldt, Lander & Washoe.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 8 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Jersey. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Pershing 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 Jersey (which is Pershing 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 Jersey
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Pershing County (where Jersey resides)
- 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 Jersey ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Jersey.
- Kennedy ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest) - Kyle Hot Springs
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kyle Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyle Hot Springs
- Kyle Hot Springs is located in Pershing County
- Cornish Camp ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cornish Camp have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornish Camp
- Cornish Camp is located in Pershing County
- Churchill County
- County Website: www.churchillcounty.org/
- County Seat for Churchill: Fallon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Churchill County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Churchill County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Churchill County
- Nearest Communities to Jersey ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Jersey.
- Boyer ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest) - Bolivia ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Lander County
- County Seat for Lander: Battle Mountain
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Lander County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Lander County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Lander County
- Nearest Communities to Jersey ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Jersey.
- McCoy ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast) - Bailey ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast) - Ravenswood ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ravenswood have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenswood
- Ravenswood is located in Lander County
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Jersey) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Jersey. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1671, Longitude: -117.4732 In this case, the coordinates for Jersey 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 Jersey, 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. |