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Nearest Communities to National,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 National 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 12 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of National. Of these communities, 1 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 National (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 National

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

  • Humboldt County   (where National resides)
    • County Website:   https://hcnv.us/
    • County Seat for Humboldt:   Winnemucca
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to National   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from National.
      • Canon Creek Station ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Canon Creek Station is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canon Creek Station
      • Cordero
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Cordero is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cordero
      • McDermitt
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Platora ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Platora is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Platora
      • Spring City ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Spring City is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring City
      • Rebel Creek ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Rebel Creek is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rebel Creek
      • Gouge Eye ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Gouge Eye is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gouge Eye
      • Greeley Crossing
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Greeley Crossing is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greeley Crossing
      • Orovada
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Queen City ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Queen City is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queen City
      • Paradise Valley
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Malheur 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 from Point A (ie- National) 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 National, 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.