Nearest Communities to Skookum,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Skookum, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Skookum:
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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Skookum is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Lander County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lander County: Churchill, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Nye & Pershing.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Skookum. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Lander 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 Skookum (which is Lander 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 Skookum
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lander County (where Skookum resides)
- County Website: https://www.landercountynv.org/
- County Seat for Lander: Battle Mountain
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skookum ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Skookum.
- Gweenah ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Gweenah is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gweenah
- Jacobsville ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Jacobsville is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacobsville
- Amador ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Amador is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amador
- Clifton ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Clifton is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
- Yankee Blade ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Yankee Blade is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankee Blade
- Austin
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Canon City ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Canon City is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canon City
- Lander City ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Lander City is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lander City
- Clinton ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Clinton is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
- Geneva ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Geneva is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva
- Mount Airy ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Mount Airy is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Airy
- Canyon City ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Canyon City is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon City
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- Watertown ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Watertown is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watertown
- Petersons Mill
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Petersons Mill is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersons Mill
- Curtis ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Curtis is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curtis
- Ravenswood ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Ravenswood is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenswood
- Adits Mill ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Adits Mill is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adits Mill
- Grass Valley ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Grass Valley is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Valley
- Kingston
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Kingston is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingston
- Spencer ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Spencer is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer
- Pedro ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Pedro is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pedro
- Maestretti ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Maestretti is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maestretti
- Lakeview ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Lakeview is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
- Churchill County
- County Website: https://www.churchillcountynv.gov/
- County Seat for Churchill: Fallon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skookum ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Skookum.
- Newpass
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Newpass is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newpass
- Edwards Creek Station ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Edwards Creek Station is located in Churchill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards Creek Station
- Nye County
- County Website: https://www.nyecountynv.gov/
- County Seat for Nye: Tonopah
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skookum ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Skookum.
- Victorine ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Victorine is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victorine
- Washington ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Washington is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington
- San Juan ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- San Juan is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Juan
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Skookum) 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 Skookum, 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. |
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