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Nearest Communities to Rhyolite,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Rhyolite.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Although our information shows that the community of Rhyolite 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 27 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rhyolite. Of these communities, 8 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 Rhyolite (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 Rhyolite

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

  • Nye County   (where Rhyolite resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.nye.nv.us/
    • County Seat for Nye:   Tonopah
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rhyolite   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rhyolite.
      • Bullfrog ‑ Historic
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bullfrog have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullfrog
        • Bullfrog is located in Nye County
      • Original ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Original have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Original
        • Original is located in Nye County
      • Beatty
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Gold Bar ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gold Bar have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Bar
        • Gold Bar is located in Nye County
      • Gold Center ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gold Center have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Center
        • Gold Center is located in Nye County
      • Fluorine ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fluorine have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fluorine
        • Fluorine is located in Nye County
      • Hot Springs
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Springdale ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Springdale have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springdale
        • Springdale is located in Nye County
      • Carrara ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Ashton ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ashton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashton
        • Ashton is located in Nye County
      • Roses Well ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Roses Well have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roses Well
        • Roses Well is located in Nye County
      • Carrs Camp ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Clarkdale ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clarkdale have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarkdale
          • Clarkdale is located in Nye County
        • Farmer Station
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Farmer Station have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmer Station
          • Farmer Station is located in Nye County
        • Leeland ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leeland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leeland
          • Leeland is located in Nye County
        • Tolicha ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tolicha have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolicha
          • Tolicha is located in Nye County
        • Bonnie Claire ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Scottys Junction
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Amargosa Valley
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Inyo 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- Rhyolite) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rhyolite. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9028, Longitude: -116.8291    
<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 Rhyolite, 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.
<6>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.




 

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