Nearest Communities to Afton,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Afton, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Afton:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Afton.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Afton is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day San Bernardino County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of San Bernardino County: La Paz (AZ), Mohave (AZ), Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside & Clark (NV).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Afton.
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 Afton (which is San Bernardino 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 Afton
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- San Bernardino County (where Afton resides)
- County Website: www.sbcounty.gov/
- County Seat for San Bernardino: San Bernardino
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of California
- San Bernardino County
- From Family Search:
- State of California
- San Bernardino County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of California
- San Bernardino County
- Nearest Communities to Afton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Afton.
- New Dunn
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west) - Dunn
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west) - Basin
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east) - Baxter ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the east) - Midway
(5 miles [8 km] to the west) - Cronese Valley
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cronese Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cronese Valley
- Cronese Valley is located in San Bernardino County
- Cronise ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast) - King ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east) - Beacon Station
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beacon Station have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beacon Station
- Beacon Station is located in San Bernardino County
- Crucero
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east) - Manix
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west) - Belfast ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east) - Continue List (27 more) ...
- Broadwell
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast) - Hector
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south) - Zzyzx
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zzyzx
- Zzyzx is located in San Bernardino County
- Former names for Zzyzx:
- Camp Soda
- Soda Springs
- Harvard
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west) - Poe ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest) - Balch
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east) - Pisgah
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south) - Lavic ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavic
- Lavic is located in San Bernardino County
- Argos
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south) - Newberry Springs
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newberry Springs
- Newberry Springs is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Newberry Springs <5>
- Toomey
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Baker
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker
- Baker is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Baker <5>
- Fort Irwin
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Irwin
- Fort Irwin is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Irwin <5>
- Sands
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east) - Ludlow
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
- Ludlow is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ludlow <5>
- Minneola
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest) - Venus
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest) - Kenton Mill
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kenton Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenton Mill
- Kenton Mill is located in San Bernardino County
- Bismarck ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west) - Yermo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yermo
- Yermo is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yermo <5>
- Ragtown ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast) - Gale
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest) - Calico ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west) - Glasgow ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east) - Ash Hill
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast) - Echo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest) - Stedman ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Broadwell
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Afton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Afton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0370, Longitude: -116.3804 |
| <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 Afton, 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |