Nearest Communities to West Wendover,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to West Wendover, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for West Wendover:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest 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 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 west 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from West Wendover.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
West Wendover 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 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of West Wendover. Of these communities, 6 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 West Wendover (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 West Wendover
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elko County (where West Wendover 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 West Wendover ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from West Wendover.
- Eastline
(Less than 2 miles to the east) - Ola
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west) - Pilot
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest) - Proctor ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest) - Clifside ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest) - Silver Zone ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Zone have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Zone
- Silver Zone is located in Elko County
- Shafter ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest) - Decoy ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Sage
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west) - Dolly Varden ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dolly Varden have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolly Varden
- Dolly Varden is located in Elko County
- Hogan ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west) - Oasis
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oasis
- Oasis is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oasis <4>
- Loray
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest) - Spruce ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Tooele County
- County Website: www.co.tooele.ut.us/
- County Seat for Tooele: Tooele (UT)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Utah
- Tooele County
- From Family Search:
- State of Utah
- Tooele County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Utah
- Tooele County
- Nearest Communities to West Wendover ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from West Wendover.
- Wendover
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendover
- Wendover is located in Tooele County (UT)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,483 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wendover <4>
- Blair
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair
- Blair is located in Tooele County (UT)
- Silsbee
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east) - Salduro ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east) - Arinosa ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arinosa
- Arinosa is located in Tooele County (UT)
- Barro
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barro
- Barro is located in Tooele County (UT)
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- West Wendover) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Wendover. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7361, Longitude: -114.0752 |
| <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. |