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Nearest Communities to Kelly Creek,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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 Kelly Creek is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day 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 21 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Kelly Creek. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Humboldt 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 Kelly Creek (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 Kelly Creek

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

  • Humboldt County   (where Kelly Creek resides)
    • County Website:   www.humboldt-county-nv.net/
    • County Seat for Humboldt:   Winnemucca
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kelly Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kelly Creek.
      • Getchell
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Getchell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Getchell
        • Getchell is located in Humboldt County
      • Red House
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red House have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red House
        • Red House is located in Humboldt County
      • Comus
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Comus have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comus
        • Comus is located in Humboldt County
      • Iron Point ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iron Point have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Point
        • Iron Point is located in Humboldt County
      • Queen City ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Queen City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queen City
        • Queen City is located in Humboldt County
      • Knight
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Knight have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knight
        • Knight is located in Humboldt County
      • Preble ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Preble. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Preble
        • Preble is located in Humboldt County
      • Herrin ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Herrin. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herrin
        • Herrin is located in Humboldt County
      • Willow Point ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Point have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Point
        • Willow Point is located in Humboldt County
      • Paradise Valley
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Gouge Eye ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Gouge Eye. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gouge Eye
        • Gouge Eye is located in Humboldt County
      • Ellison
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ellison have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellison
        • Ellison is located in Humboldt County
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Spring City ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spring City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring City
          • Spring City is located in Humboldt County
        • Golconda
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Greeley Crossing
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greeley Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greeley Crossing
          • Greeley Crossing is located in Humboldt County
        • Paradise Hill
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Hill
          • Paradise Hill is located in Humboldt County
  • Elko County
    • County Website:   www.elkocountynv.net/
    • County Seat for Elko:   Elko
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Kelly Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Kelly Creek.
      • Summit ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Summit have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
        • Summit is located in Elko County
      • Midas
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midas
        • Midas is located in Elko County
      • Fairlawn ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairlawn have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairlawn
        • Fairlawn is located in Elko County
      • Dutton ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dutton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutton
        • Dutton is located in Elko County
      • Scraper Springs
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scraper Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scraper Springs
        • Scraper Springs is located in Elko County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Kelly Creek) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kelly Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.2649, Longitude: -117.0951       In this case, the coordinates for Kelly Creek 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 Kelly Creek, 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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
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