Nearest Communities to Vernon,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Vernon, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Vernon:
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.
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 Vernon is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Pershing County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pershing County: Churchill, Humboldt, Lander & Washoe.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Vernon. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Pershing 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 Vernon (which is Pershing 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 Vernon
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Pershing County (where Vernon resides)
- 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 Vernon ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vernon.
- Tunnel Camp ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunnel Camp
- Tunnel Camp is located in Pershing County
- Seven Troughs ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Seven Troughs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Troughs
- Seven Troughs is located in Pershing County
- Mazuma ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast) - Farrell ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast) - Clarksville ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clarksville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarksville
- Clarksville is located in Pershing County
- Placerites ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Placerites have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placerites
- Placerites is located in Pershing County
- Poker Brown ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Poker Brown have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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
- Arabia
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east) - Scossa
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast) - Kodak
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast) - Lovelock
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovelock
- Lovelock is located in Pershing County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,819 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lovelock <5>
- Sanborn ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east) - Continue List (19 more) ...
- Torreytown ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Torreytown have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreytown
- Torreytown is located in Pershing County
- Colado ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast) - Woolsey ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast) - Oreana ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east) - Zola ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east) - Granite Point ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite Point
- Granite Point is located in Pershing County
- Perth
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - Rye Patch
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east) - Goldbud ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - Rosebud ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - Toulon ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south) - Loring ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Browns Station ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Browns Station have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browns Station
- Browns Station is located in Pershing County
- Toy ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south) - Trego
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest) - Lima ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east) - Twain
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east) - Humboldt House
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Humboldt House have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humboldt House
- Humboldt House is located in Pershing County
- Humboldt
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Torreytown ‑ Historic
- Washoe County
- County Website: www.co.washoe.nv.us/
- County Seat for Washoe: Reno
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Washoe County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Washoe County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Washoe County
- Nearest Communities to Vernon ...
- Empire
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
- Empire is located in Washoe County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Empire <5>
- Empire
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Vernon) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Vernon. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4260, Longitude: -118.7896 In this case, the coordinates for Vernon 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 Vernon, 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |