Nearest Communities to Joy,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Joy, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Joy:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Joy is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day White Pine County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of White Pine County: Elko, Eureka, Lincoln, Nye, Juab (UT), Millard (UT) & Tooele (UT).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Joy. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than White Pine 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 Joy (which is White Pine 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 Joy
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- White Pine County (where Joy resides)
- County Website: www.co.white-pine.nv.us/
- County Seat for White Pine: Ely
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- White Pine County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- White Pine County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- White Pine County
- Nearest Communities to Joy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Joy.
- Fort Ruby ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Ruby
- Fort Ruby is located in White Pine County
- Fort Ruby has also been known as:
- Camp Ruby
- Hobson ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north) - Simonsen ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest) - Strawberry ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Strawberry have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strawberry
- Strawberry is located in White Pine County
- Newark ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Elko County
- County Website: www.elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- Nearest Communities to Joy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Joy.
- Shanty Town
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shanty Town have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shanty Town
- Shanty Town is located in Elko County
- Sherman ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest) - Cave Creek
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave Creek
- Cave Creek is located in Elko County
- Cave Creek has also been known as:
- Cavecreek
- Huntington ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Huntington have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntington
- Huntington is located in Elko County
- Ruby Valley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby Valley
- Ruby Valley is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ruby Valley <5>
- Eureka County
- County Website: www.co.eureka.nv.us/
- County Seat for Eureka: Eureka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Eureka County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Eureka County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Eureka County
- Nearest Communities to Joy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Joy.
- Birch ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west) - Corwin ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west) - Diamond City ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Diamond City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond City
- Diamond City is located in Eureka County
- Romano ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
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- Joy) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Joy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9472, Longitude: -115.5425 In this case, the coordinates for Joy 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 Joy, 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. |