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Nearest Communities to Winnemucca,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Winnemucca, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Winnemucca:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest 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 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 Winnemucca.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Winnemucca is located in Humboldt County and is the County Seat.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Humboldt County: Owyhee (ID), Elko, Lander, Pershing, Washoe, Harney (OR) & Malheur (OR).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Winnemucca. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Humboldt 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 Winnemucca (which is Humboldt 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 Winnemucca

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Humboldt County   (where Winnemucca resides)
    • County Website:   https://hcnv.us/
    • County Seat for Humboldt:   Winnemucca
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Winnemucca   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Winnemucca.
      • Weso
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Weso is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weso
      • Tule
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Krum ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Bliss ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Bliss is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bliss
      • Laurel ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Laurel is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel
      • Barrett Springs ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Barrett Springs is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barrett Springs
      • Rose Creek
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Rose Creek is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Creek
      • Fairview ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Fairview is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Golconda
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Raglan ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Adelaide ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Adelaide is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adelaide
      • Gold Run ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Gold Run is located in Humboldt County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Run
      • Continue List   (14 more) ...
        • Preble ‑ Historic
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Pronto ‑ Historic
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Willow Point ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
          • Willow Point is located in Humboldt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Point
        • Comus
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Comus is located in Humboldt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comus
        • Paradise Hill
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Iron Point ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Iron Point is located in Humboldt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Point
        • Daveytown ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
        • Red House
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Red House is located in Humboldt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red House
        • Herrin ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Venado ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Venado is located in Humboldt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venado
        • Amos ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Getchell
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Getchell is located in Humboldt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Getchell
        • Knight
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Knight is located in Humboldt County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knight
        • Awakening ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Pershing County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Winnemucca) 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.
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