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Nearest Communities to Rose Creek,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 Rose Creek.<1>

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


Rose Creek is located in 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 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rose Creek. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Humboldt 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 Rose Creek (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 Rose Creek

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

  • Humboldt County   (where Rose Creek resides)
    • County Website:   https://hcnv.us/
    • County Seat for Humboldt:   Winnemucca
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rose Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rose Creek.
      • Krum ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Krum is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krum
      • Raglan ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Raglan is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raglan
      • Laurel ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Laurel is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel
      • Pronto ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Pronto is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pronto
      • Barrett Springs ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Barrett Springs is located in Humboldt County
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      • Winnemucca
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Weso
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Weso is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weso
      • Tule
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Tule is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tule
      • Bliss ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Bliss is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bliss
      • Venado ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Venado is located in Humboldt County
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      • Adelaide ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Adelaide is located in Humboldt County
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      • Fairview ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Fairview is located in Humboldt County
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      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Golconda
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Gold Run ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Gold Run is located in Humboldt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Run
        • Jungo ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Jungo is located in Humboldt County
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        • Preble ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Preble is located in Humboldt County
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        • Daveytown ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Daveytown is located in Humboldt County
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        • Paradise Hill
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Paradise Hill is located in Humboldt County
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        • Willow Point ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Willow Point is located in Humboldt County
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        • Comus
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Comus is located in Humboldt County
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  • Pershing County
    • County Website:   https://pershingcounty.net/
    • County Seat for Pershing:   Lovelock
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rose Creek   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rose Creek.
      • Cosgrave ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Cosgrave is located in Pershing County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cosgrave
      • Raspberry Creek ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Raspberry Creek is located in Pershing County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raspberry Creek
      • Dun Glen ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Dun Glen is located in Pershing County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dun Glen
      • Bonnie Briar ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Bonnie Briar is located in Pershing County
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      • Central ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Central is located in Pershing County
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      • Neptune City ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Neptune City is located in Pershing County
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      • Tungsten
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Tungsten is located in Pershing County
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      • Mill City
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Puckerbrush
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Puckerbrush is located in Pershing County
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      • Lander City ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Lander City is located in Pershing County
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      • Imlay
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Cherry Creek ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Cherry Creek is located in Pershing County
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      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Humboldt City ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Humboldt City is located in Pershing County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humboldt City
        • Humboldt House
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Humboldt House is located in Pershing County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humboldt House
        • Humboldt
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Humboldt is located in Pershing County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humboldt
        • Star City ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Star City is located in Pershing County
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        • Twain
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Twain is located in Pershing County
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Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rose Creek) 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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