Nearest Communities to Sulphur,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sulphur, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sulphur:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 from Sulphur.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sulphur is located in Humboldt County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Humboldt County: Owyhee (ID), Elko, Lander, Pershing, Washoe, Harney (OR) & Malheur (OR).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sulphur. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Humboldt 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 Sulphur (which is Humboldt 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 Sulphur
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Humboldt County (where Sulphur resides)
- County Website: www.humboldt-county-nv.net/
- County Seat for Humboldt: Winnemucca
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Humboldt County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Humboldt County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Humboldt County
- Nearest Communities to Sulphur ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sulphur.
- Red Butte ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast) - Jungo ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the east) - Venado ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Pershing County
- County Seat for Pershing: Lovelock
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Pershing County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Pershing County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Pershing County
- Nearest Communities to Sulphur ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sulphur.
- Goldbud ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast) - Rosebud ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast) - Scossa
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast) - Placerites ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Placerites have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placerites
- Placerites is located in Pershing County
- Trego
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Farrell ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south) - Seven Troughs ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Seven Troughs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Troughs
- Seven Troughs is located in Pershing County
- Poker Brown ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Poker Brown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poker Brown
- Poker Brown is located in Pershing County
- Poker Brown has also been known as:
- Poker Brown Camp
- Mazuma ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south) - Tunnel Camp ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunnel Camp
- Tunnel Camp is located in Pershing County
- Hualipi ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
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- Sulphur) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sulphur. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8746, Longitude: -118.7366 In this case, the coordinates for Sulphur have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <3> | 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. |