Nearest Communities to Ruby Valley,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ruby Valley, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ruby Valley:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.
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.
Ruby Valley is located in Elko County.
The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Elko County: Cassia (ID), Owyhee (ID), Twin Falls (ID), Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, White Pine, Box Elder (UT) & Tooele (UT).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ruby Valley. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Elko 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 Ruby Valley (which is Elko 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 Ruby Valley
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elko County (where Ruby Valley resides)
- County Website: www.elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- Nearest Communities to Ruby Valley ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ruby Valley.
- Rock House
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock House have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock House
- Rock House is located in Elko County
- Dry Creek ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest) - Cave Creek
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave Creek
- Cave Creek is located in Elko County
- Cave Creek has also been known as:
- Cavecreek
- Jiggs
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jiggs
- Jiggs is located in Elko County
- Former names for Jiggs:
- Hylton
- Mound Valley
- Skelton
- Huntington ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Huntington have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntington
- Huntington is located in Elko County
- Shanty Town
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shanty Town have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shanty Town
- Shanty Town is located in Elko County
- Schley ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast) - Lee ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest) - Fair Play ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast) - Sherman ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest) - Brennen Ranch
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brennen Ranch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brennen Ranch
- Brennen Ranch is located in Elko County
- Pleasant Valley
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
- Pleasant Valley is located in Elko County
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- Coral Hill ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coral Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Hill
- Coral Hill is located in Elko County
- Lamoille
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamoille
- Lamoille is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lamoille <4>
- Spring Creek
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek
- Spring Creek is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spring Creek <4>
- Voight ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north) - Cottonwood ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cottonwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
- Cottonwood is located in Elko County
- Bullion ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west) - Highland ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west) - Old Bullion
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Bullion have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Bullion
- Old Bullion is located in Elko County
- Coral Hill ‑ Historic
- 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 Ruby Valley ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ruby Valley.
- Fort Ruby ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Ruby
- Fort Ruby is located in White Pine County
- Fort Ruby has also been known as:
- Camp Ruby
- Hobson ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Joy ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
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- Ruby Valley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ruby Valley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3606, Longitude: -115.4474 |
| <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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |