Nearest Communities to Wells,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Wells, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Wells:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Wells.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Wells 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 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wells.
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 Wells (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 Wells
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elko County (where Wells 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 Wells ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wells.
- Alazon ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest) - Moor
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east) - Welcome
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west) - Tulasco ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west) - Metropolis ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metropolis
- Metropolis is located in Elko County
- Ruby
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south) - Melandco ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast) - Holborn ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east) - Wood ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood
- Wood is located in Elko County
- Tobar ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Fenelon
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east) - Deeth
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deeth
- Deeth is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deeth <4>
- Continue List (19 more) ...
- Ventosa ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast) - Pequop
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east) - Warm Creek ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Warm Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warm Creek
- Warm Creek is located in Elko County
- Secret ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest) - Wilkins ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast) - Clover ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south) - Arthur ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest) - Oasis
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oasis
- Oasis is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oasis <4>
- Schoer Place
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Schoer Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schoer Place
- Schoer Place is located in Elko County
- Afton ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - Elaine ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south) - Spruce ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Halleck ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Toano ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east) - Fort Halleck ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Halleck
- Fort Halleck is located in Elko County
- Cobre ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Beaver ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west) - Shores ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north) - Elburz
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Ventosa ‑ Historic
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Wells) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wells. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1113, Longitude: -114.9663 |
| <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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |