Nearest Communities to Summit,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Summit, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Summit:
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.
Keep in mind 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 Summit 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 13 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Summit. Of these communities, 7 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 Summit (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 Summit
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elko County (where Summit resides)
- County Website: www.elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Elko County
- Nearest Communities to Summit ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Summit.
- Midas
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midas
- Midas is located in Elko County
- Dutton ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast) - Fairlawn ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast) - Scraper Springs
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scraper Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scraper Springs
- Scraper Springs is located in Elko County
- Good Hope ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast) - Old Tuscarora ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Tuscarora have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Tuscarora
- Old Tuscarora is located in Elko County
- Humboldt County
- 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 Summit ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Summit.
- Kelly Creek ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kelly Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly Creek
- Kelly Creek is located in Humboldt County
- Getchell
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Red House
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Knight
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest) - Ellison
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Comus
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest) - Iron Point ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iron Point have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Point
- Iron Point is located in Humboldt County
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Summit) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Summit. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.2252, Longitude: -116.8134 In this case, the coordinates for Summit have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Summit, 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> | 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. |