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

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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 Silver Springs.<1>

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

Silver Springs is located in Lyon County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lyon County: Mono (CA), Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Mineral, Storey & Washoe.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 96 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Silver Springs. Of these communities, 64 are located in counties other than Lyon 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 Silver Springs (which is Lyon 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 Silver Springs

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

  • Lyon County   (where Silver Springs resides)
  • Carson City
  • Churchill County
    • County Website:   https://www.churchillcountynv.gov/
    • County Seat for Churchill:   Fallon
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Silver Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Silver Springs.
      • Lahontan City ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Diatom
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Northam ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Northam is located in Churchill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northam
      • Hazen
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Gregory ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Gregory is located in Churchill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregory
      • Willowtown ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Willowtown is located in Churchill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willowtown
      • Leeteville ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Leeteville is located in Churchill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leeteville
      • Ragtown ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Massie
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Massie is located in Churchill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Massie
      • Saint Clair Station ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Saint Clair Station is located in Churchill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair Station
      • Saint Clair
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Saint Clair is located in Churchill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair
      • Island City ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Island City is located in Churchill County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
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        • Fallon
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Leete ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Leete is located in Churchill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leete
        • Hill ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Hill is located in Churchill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill
        • Nevada City ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Nevada City is located in Churchill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevada City
        • Fillmore ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
          • Fillmore is located in Churchill County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fillmore
  • Douglas County
  • Mineral County
  • Storey County
  • Washoe County
    • County Website:   https://washoecounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Washoe:   Reno
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Silver Springs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Silver Springs.
      • Roderick ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Roderick is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roderick
      • Lower Crossing
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Lower Crossing is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Crossing
      • Wadsworth
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Clarks ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Clarks is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarks
      • Dodge
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Dodge is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodge
      • Olinghouse ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Olinghouse is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olinghouse
      • Patrick
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Patrick is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patrick
      • Fort Defiance ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Hafed
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Hafed is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hafed
      • Mustang
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Mustang is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mustang
      • Five Mile House ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Five Mile House is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Mile House
      • Vista
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Vista is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista
      • Continue List   (12 more) ...

Footnotes ...

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