Nearest Communities to Red Butte,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Red Butte, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Red Butte:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Red Butte 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 10 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Red Butte. Of these communities, 4 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 Red Butte (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 Red Butte
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Humboldt County (where Red Butte resides)
- County Website: www.humboldt-county-nv.net/
- County Seat for Humboldt: Winnemucca
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Humboldt County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Humboldt County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Humboldt County
- Nearest Communities to Red Butte ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Red Butte.
- Jungo ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast) - Sulphur
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest) - Venado ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast) - Happy Creek Station
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Happy Creek Station have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Creek Station
- Happy Creek Station is located in Humboldt County
- Varyville ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest) - Pronto ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pronto
- Pronto is located in Humboldt County
- Pershing County
- County Seat for Pershing: Lovelock
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Pershing County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Pershing County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Pershing County
- Nearest Communities to Red Butte ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Red Butte.
- Rosebud ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south) - Goldbud ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south) - Scossa
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south) - Placerites ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Placerites have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placerites
- Placerites is located in Pershing County
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- Red Butte) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Red Butte. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1077, Longitude: -118.5835 In this case, the coordinates for Red Butte 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 Red Butte, 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. |