Nearest Communities to Spencer,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Spencer, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Spencer:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Spencer.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Spencer 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 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Spencer. Of these communities, 4 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 Spencer (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 Spencer
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lander County (where Spencer resides)
- County Website: https://www.landercountynv.org/
- County Seat for Lander: Battle Mountain
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Spencer ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Spencer.
- Grass Valley ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Grass Valley is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Valley
- Hiller ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Hiller is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hiller
- Amador ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Amador is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amador
- Yankee Blade ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Yankee Blade is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankee Blade
- Austin
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Curtis ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Curtis is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curtis
- Clifton ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Clifton is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton
- Gweenah ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Gweenah is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gweenah
- Skookum ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Skookum is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skookum
- Canon City ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Canon City is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canon City
- Clinton ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Clinton is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
- Geneva ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Geneva is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva
- Jacobsville ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jacobsville is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacobsville
- Ravenswood ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Ravenswood is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenswood
- Eureka County
- County Website: https://www.eurekacountynv.gov/
- County Seat for Eureka: Eureka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Spencer ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Spencer.
- Three Bar ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Three Bar is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Bar
- Keystone ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Keystone is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
- Nevin ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Nevin is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevin
- Nevin has also been known as:
- Nevins
- Tonkin ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Tonkin is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonkin
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 from Point A (ie- Spencer) 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 Spencer, 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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