Nearest Communities to Wilkins,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Wilkins, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Wilkins:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Wilkins 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 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wilkins.
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 Wilkins (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 Wilkins
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Elko County (where Wilkins 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 Wilkins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Wilkins.
- Shores ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north) - Schoer Place
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Schoer Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schoer Place
- Schoer Place is located in Elko County
- Melandco ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Melandco. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melandco
- Melandco is located in Elko County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Melandco
- From Wilkins to Melandco
- Fenelon
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south) - Pequop
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast) - Holborn ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Holborn. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holborn
- Holborn is located in Elko County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Holborn
- From Wilkins to Holborn
- Henry ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Henry. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry
- Henry is located in Elko County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Henry
- From Wilkins to Henry
- Afton ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Afton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Afton
- Afton is located in Elko County
- Afton has also been known as:
- Taber City
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Afton
- From Wilkins to Afton
- Metropolis ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metropolis
- Metropolis is located in Elko County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Metropolis
- From Wilkins to Metropolis
- Riverside ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north) - Moor
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south) - Contact ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Contact
- Contact is located in Elko County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Contact
- From Wilkins to Contact
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- Alazon ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest) - Wells
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells
- Wells is located in Elko County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,254 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wells <6>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Wells
- From Wilkins to Wells
- Morton ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest) - Morlan ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest) - Toano ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Toano. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toano
- Toano is located in Elko County
- Toano has also been known as:
- Toana
- Tuana
- Tuanna
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Toano
- From Wilkins to Toano
- O'Neil ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest) - Cobre ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cobre. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobre
- Cobre is located in Elko County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Cobre
- From Wilkins to Cobre
- Tulasco ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest) - Welcome
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest) - Delano ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast) - Bauvard ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast) - Loray
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Loray. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loray
- Loray is located in Elko County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Loray
- From Wilkins to Loray
- Montello
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montello
- Montello is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Montello <6>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Montello
- From Wilkins to Montello
- Oasis
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oasis
- Oasis is located in Elko County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oasis <6>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Oasis
- From Wilkins to Oasis
- Alazon ‑ Historic
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 from Point A (ie- Wilkins) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wilkins. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.4248, Longitude: -114.7520 In this case, the coordinates for Wilkins 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 Wilkins, 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> | 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. |
| <6> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |