Nearest Communities to Ruby,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ruby, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ruby:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 from Ruby.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Ruby 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 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ruby.
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 (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
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elko County (where Ruby 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 ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ruby.
- Tobar ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast) - Wood ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood
- Wood is located in Elko County
- Warm Creek ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Warm Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warm Creek
- Warm Creek is located in Elko County
- Wells
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells
- Wells is located in Elko County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,254 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wells <4>
- Ventosa ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast) - Alazon ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north) - Moor
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast) - Welcome
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest) - Tulasco ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest) - Clover ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south) - Arthur ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest) - Secret ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest) - Continue List (21 more) ...
- Elaine ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast) - Deeth
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deeth
- Deeth is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deeth <4>
- Metropolis ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metropolis
- Metropolis is located in Elko County
- Holborn ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast) - Spruce ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast) - Fenelon
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast) - Melandco ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north) - Hogan ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast) - Oasis
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oasis
- Oasis is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oasis <4>
- Sage
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast) - Pequop
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast) - Fort Halleck ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Halleck
- Fort Halleck is located in Elko County
- Halleck ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west) - Shafter ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - Black Forest ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Black Forest have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Forest
- Black Forest is located in Elko County
- Sprucemont
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sprucemont. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprucemont
- Sprucemont is located in Elko County
- Voight ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest) - Toano ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast) - Fair Play ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Elburz
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west) - Cobre ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Elaine ‑ Historic
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Ruby) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ruby. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.9605, Longitude: -114.9500 In this case, the coordinates for Ruby have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <5> | 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. |