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Nearest Communities to Shafter,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Shafter.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Shafter is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day 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 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Shafter. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Elko 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 Shafter (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 Shafter

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

  • Elko County   (where Shafter resides)
    • County Website:   https://elkocountynv.net/
    • County Seat for Elko:   Elko
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Shafter   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Shafter.
      • Silver Zone ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Silver Zone is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Zone
      • Sage
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Sage is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage
      • Proctor ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Proctor is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proctor
      • Clifside ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Clifside is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifside
      • Pilot
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Pilot is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilot
      • Hogan ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Spruce ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Oasis
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Decoy ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Decoy is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Decoy
      • Cobre ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Ola
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Ola is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ola
      • Ventosa ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Ventosa is located in Elko County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ventosa
      • Continue List   (16 more) ...
        • Toano ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Elaine ‑ Historic
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Elaine is located in Elko County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elaine
        • West Wendover
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Loray
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
        • Dolly Varden ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Dolly Varden is located in Elko County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolly Varden
        • Eastline
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
          • Eastline is located in Elko County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastline
        • Tobar ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
          • Tobar is located in Elko County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tobar
        • Pequop
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Pequop is located in Elko County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pequop
        • Fenelon
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Fenelon is located in Elko County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fenelon
        • Holborn ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Moor
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Moor is located in Elko County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moor
        • Black Forest ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Black Forest is located in Elko County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Forest
        • Ruby
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Ruby is located in Elko County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby
        • Bauvard ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
          • Bauvard is located in Elko County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bauvard
        • Warm Creek ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
          • Warm Creek is located in Elko County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warm Creek
        • Sprucemont
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Tooele County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Shafter) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Shafter, 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.