Nearest Communities to Potts,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Potts, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Potts:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Potts.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Potts 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 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Potts. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Nye 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 Potts (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 Potts
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Nye County (where Potts resides)
- County Website: www.co.nye.nv.us/
- County Seat for Nye: Tonopah
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Nye County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Nye County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Nye County
- Nearest Communities to Potts ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Potts.
- Wilson ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest) - Stargo ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast) - Learville ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest) - Northumberland ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Northumberland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northumberland
- Northumberland is located in Nye County
- Antelope ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast) - Lauville ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south) - Pioneer ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest) - Danville ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south) - Pine Creek ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pine Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Creek
- Pine Creek is located in Nye County
- Junction ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west) - Victorine ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victorine
- Victorine is located in Nye County
- Stone House ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stone House have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone House
- Stone House is located in Nye County
- Millett ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Lander County
- County Seat for Lander: Battle Mountain
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Lander County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Lander County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Lander County
- Nearest Communities to Potts ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Potts.
- Kingston
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingston
- Kingston is located in Lander County
- Adits Mill ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Adits Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adits Mill
- Adits Mill is located in Lander County
- Clinton ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest) - Geneva ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
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 from Point A (ie- Potts) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Potts. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0860, Longitude: -116.6409 In this case, the coordinates for Potts 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 Potts, 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. |