Nearest Communities to Petersons Mill,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Petersons Mill, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Petersons Mill:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.
Keep in mind 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.
Petersons Mill is located in 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 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Petersons Mill. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Lander County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Petersons Mill (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 Petersons Mill
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lander County (where Petersons Mill resides)
- County Website: https://www.landercountynv.org/
- County Seat for Lander: Battle Mountain
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Petersons Mill ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Petersons Mill.
- Mount Airy ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Airy is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Airy
- Gweenah ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Gweenah is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gweenah
- Jacobsville ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Jacobsville is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacobsville
- Skookum ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Skookum is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skookum
- Maestretti ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Maestretti is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maestretti
- Ravenswood ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Ravenswood is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenswood
- Canon City ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Canon City is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canon City
- Amador ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Amador is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amador
- Austin
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Clifton ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Clifton is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
- Curtis ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Curtis is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curtis
- Lander City ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Lander City is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lander City
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- Yankee Blade ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Yankee Blade is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankee Blade
- Canyon City ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Canyon City is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon City
- Lakeview ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Lakeview is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
- Watertown ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Watertown is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watertown
- Clinton ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Clinton is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
- Geneva ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Geneva is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva
- Carroll ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Carroll is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carroll
- Pedro ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Pedro is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedro
- Adits Mill ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Adits Mill is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adits Mill
- Kingston
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Kingston is 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 Petersons Mill ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Petersons Mill.
- Newpass
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Newpass is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newpass
- Edwards Creek Station ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Edwards Creek Station is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards Creek Station
- Alpine ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Alpine is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine
- Alpine has also been known as:
- Clan Alpine
- Bernice ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Bernice is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernice
- Cold Springs
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Cold Springs is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Springs
- 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 Petersons Mill ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Petersons Mill.
- Victorine ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Victorine is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victorine
- Washington ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Washington is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Petersons Mill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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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