Nearest Communities to Tuscarora,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Tuscarora, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Tuscarora:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 starting from Tuscarora.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Tuscarora is located in 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 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Tuscarora. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Elko 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 Tuscarora (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 Tuscarora
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elko County (where Tuscarora resides)
- County Website: https://elkocountynv.net/
- County Seat for Elko: Elko
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Tuscarora ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Tuscarora.
- Old Tuscarora ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Old Tuscarora is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Tuscarora
- Jackson ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Jackson is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson
- Anderson ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Jack Creek ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Jack Creek is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jack Creek
- Cornucopia ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Deep Creek ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Good Hope ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Good Hope is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope
- Good Hope has also been known as:
- Goodhope
- Dinner Station ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Dinner Station is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dinner Station
- Scraper Springs
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Scraper Springs is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scraper Springs
- North Fork ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- North Fork is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fork
- Echo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Echo is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo
- Columbia ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Columbia is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Excelsior ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Excelsior is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Excelsior
- Dutton ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Dutton is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutton
- White Rock ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- White Rock is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock
- Fairlawn ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Fairlawn is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairlawn
- Midas
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Eureka County
- County Website: https://www.eurekacountynv.gov/
- County Seat for Eureka: Eureka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Tuscarora ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Tuscarora.
- Goldville ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Goldville is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldville
- Leeville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Leeville is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leeville
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- Tuscarora) 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. |