Nearest Communities to Prospect,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Prospect, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Prospect:
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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Prospect.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Prospect is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Eureka County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Eureka County: Elko, Lander, Nye & White Pine.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Prospect. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Eureka 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 Prospect (which is Eureka 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 Prospect
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Eureka County (where Prospect resides)
- County Website: www.co.eureka.nv.us/
- County Seat for Eureka: Eureka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Eureka County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Eureka County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Eureka County
- Nearest Communities to Prospect ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Prospect.
- Vanderbilt ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vanderbilt have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanderbilt
- Vanderbilt is located in Eureka County
- Ruby Hill ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby Hill
- Ruby Hill is located in Eureka County
- Eureka
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eureka
- Eureka is located in Eureka County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eureka <5>
- Pinto ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast) - Eunice Place
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eunice Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eunice Place
- Eunice Place is located in Eureka County
- Diamond City ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Diamond City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond City
- Diamond City is located in Eureka County
- Nye County
- 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 Prospect ...
- White Pine County
- County Website: www.co.white-pine.nv.us/
- County Seat for White Pine: Ely
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- White Pine County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- White Pine County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- White Pine County
- Nearest Communities to Prospect ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Prospect.
- Pinto ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast) - Newark ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast) - Strawberry ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Strawberry have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strawberry
- Strawberry is located in White Pine County
- Seligman ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Belmont Mill ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont Mill
- Belmont Mill is located in White Pine County
- Simonsen ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast) - Babylon ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Prospect) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Prospect. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4549, Longitude: -116.0170 In this case, the coordinates for Prospect 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 Prospect, 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |