Nearest Communities to Mellan,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Mellan, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Mellan:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Mellan 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 9 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mellan.
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 Mellan (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 Mellan
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Nye County (where Mellan resides)
- County Website: https://www.nyecountynv.gov/
- County Seat for Nye: Tonopah
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mellan ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mellan.
- Antelope Springs ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Antelope Springs is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope Springs
- Silverbow ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Silverbow is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silverbow
- Silverbow has also been known as:
- Silver Bow
- Jamestown ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Jamestown is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamestown
- Eden ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Eden is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
- Golden Arrow ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Golden Arrow is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Arrow
- Bellehelen ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Bellehelen is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellehelen
- Ellendale ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Ellendale is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellendale
- New Reveille ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- New Reveille is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Reveille
- Helena ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Helena is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
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 from Point A (ie- Mellan) 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 Mellan, 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. |