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Nearest Communities to Sand Springs,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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 Sand Springs is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Churchill County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Churchill County: Lander, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing & Washoe.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sand Springs. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Churchill 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 Sand Springs (which is Churchill 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 Sand Springs

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

  • Churchill County   (where Sand Springs resides)
    • County Website:   www.churchillcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Churchill:   Fallon
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sand Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sand Springs.
      • Sand Hill Station ‑ Historic
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sand Hill Station have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Hill Station
        • Sand Hill Station is located in Churchill County
      • Frenchman
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frenchman have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frenchman
        • Frenchman is located in Churchill County
      • Eagleville ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagleville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagleville
        • Eagleville is located in Churchill County
      • Nevada Hills ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nevada Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevada Hills
        • Nevada Hills is located in Churchill County
      • Salt Wells
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Hill ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill
        • Hill is located in Churchill County
      • Nevada City ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nevada City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevada City
        • Nevada City is located in Churchill County
      • Stillwater
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Middlegate
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Middlegate have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlegate
        • Middlegate is located in Churchill County
      • Red Top ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Top have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Top
        • Red Top is located in Churchill County
      • Island City ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Island City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
        • Island City is located in Churchill County
      • Kingston ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kingston have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingston
        • Kingston is located in Churchill County
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Fallon
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Saint Clair
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Clair have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair
          • Saint Clair is located in Churchill County
        • Saint Clair Station ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Clair Station have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair Station
          • Saint Clair Station is located in Churchill County
        • Eastgate
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eastgate have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastgate
          • Eastgate is located in Churchill County
        • Gregory ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gregory have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregory
          • Gregory is located in Churchill County
  • Mineral County
    • County Seat for Mineral:   Hawthorne
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sand Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sand Springs.
      • Rawhide ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rawhide have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rawhide
        • Rawhide is located in Mineral County
      • Eagleville ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagleville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagleville
        • Eagleville is located in Mineral County
      • Broken Hills ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Woodruffs ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Woodruffs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodruffs
        • Woodruffs is located in Mineral County
      • Loma ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Loma have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma
        • Loma is located in Mineral County
      • Reservation ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reservation have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reservation
        • Reservation is located in Mineral County
  • Nye 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Sand Springs) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sand Springs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.2731, Longitude: -118.4072       In this case, the coordinates for Sand Springs 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 Sand Springs, 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>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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