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Select by location within same layer

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03-02-2026 12:12 PM
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ShannonAK
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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.

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May try creating a 10 and 20 mile buffer first?

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ShannonAK
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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.

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RhettZufelt
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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.

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

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