topic Select by location within same layer in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Select by location within same layer

ShannonAK — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:12:09 GMT

What is the best workflow to select points in the same layer within 10 miles and 20 miles of each other? Select by location self selects every point since each point is within 10 miles and 20 miles of each other.

Re: Select by location within same layer

Ed_ — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:31:05 GMT

May try creating a 10 and 20 mile buffer first?

Re: Select by location within same layer

RhettZufelt — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:51:54 GMT

If you manually select a single point first, then run Select by Location (Within a distance) against itself, it will only select the points within 10 miles of the initially selected point.

Re: Select by location within same layer

ShannonAK — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:24:11 GMT

I tried that, but I'd either have to do a visual inspection of nearly 200 points or I run into the self selection problem again.

Re: Select by location within same layer

ShannonAK — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:32:26 GMT

Thank you for the suggestion. Selecting points manually and then running a Select by Location on each one would work functionally, but with nearly 200 points in this dataset, it would be too time‑consuming to do individually.

Re: Select by location within same layer

Ed_ — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:18:27 GMT

maybe use model builder to iterate through the point selection one by one using OBJECTID or some other ID field.