Nearest Communities to Mount Airy,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Mount Airy, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Mount Airy:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 Mount Airy 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 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mount Airy. Of these communities, 9 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 Mount Airy (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 Mount Airy
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lander County (where Mount Airy resides)
- County Website: https://www.landercountynv.org/
- County Seat for Lander: Battle Mountain
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mount Airy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mount Airy.
- Petersons Mill
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Petersons Mill is also located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersons Mill
- Gweenah ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Gweenah was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gweenah
- Jacobsville ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Jacobsville was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacobsville
- Skookum ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Skookum was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skookum
- Canon City ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Canon City was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canon City
- Lander City ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Lander City was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lander City
- Clifton ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Clifton was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
- Maestretti ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Maestretti was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maestretti
- Amador ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Amador was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amador
- Austin
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Canyon City ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Canyon City was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon City
- Yankee Blade ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Yankee Blade was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankee Blade
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- Watertown ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Watertown was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watertown
- Clinton ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Clinton was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
- Geneva ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Geneva was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva
- Lakeview ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Lakeview was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
- Ravenswood ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Ravenswood was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenswood
- Curtis ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Curtis was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curtis
- Pedro ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Pedro was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedro
- Adits Mill ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Adits Mill was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adits Mill
- Carroll ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Carroll was located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carroll
- Kingston
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Kingston is also located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingston
- Churchill County
- County Website: https://www.churchillcountynv.gov/
- County Seat for Churchill: Fallon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mount Airy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mount Airy.
- Newpass
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Newpass is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newpass
- Edwards Creek Station ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Edwards Creek Station was located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards Creek Station
- Alpine ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Alpine was located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine
- Alpine has also been known as:
- Clan Alpine
- Cold Springs
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Cold Springs is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Springs
- Bernice ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Bernice was located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernice
- Eastgate
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Eastgate is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastgate
- Nye County
- County Website: https://www.nyecountynv.gov/
- County Seat for Nye: Tonopah
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Mount Airy ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mount Airy.
- Victorine ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Victorine was located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victorine
- Washington ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Washington was located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington
- San Juan ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- San Juan was located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Juan
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Mount Airy) 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 Mount Airy, 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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