Nearest Communities to Baker,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Baker, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Baker:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 east 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Baker.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Baker is located in 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 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Baker.
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 Baker (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 Baker
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- San Bernardino County (where Baker 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 Baker ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Baker.
- Zzyzx
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zzyzx
- Zzyzx is located in San Bernardino County
- Former names for Zzyzx:
- Camp Soda
- Soda Springs
- Beacon Station
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beacon Station have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beacon Station
- Beacon Station is located in San Bernardino County
- Halloran Springs
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Halloran Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halloran Springs
- Halloran Springs is located in San Bernardino County
- Talc ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north) - Balch
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Belfast ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Crucero
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Cronese Valley
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cronese Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest) - King ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest) - Yucca Grove
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yucca Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yucca Grove
- Yucca Grove is located in San Bernardino County
- Sands
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast) - Continue List (17 more) ...
- Basin
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest) - Baxter ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest) - Renoville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north) - Valjean ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Glasgow ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast) - Afton ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Afton
- Afton is located in San Bernardino County
- Rainbow Wells
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rainbow Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow Wells
- Rainbow Wells is located in San Bernardino County
- Valley Wells Station
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Valley Wells Station have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Wells Station
- Valley Wells Station is located in San Bernardino County
- New Dunn
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest) - Kerens ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - Dunn
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest) - Broadwell
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south) - Flynn
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Midway
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Kelso
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelso
- Kelso is located in San Bernardino County
- Dumont
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north) - Hayden
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Basin
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Baker) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Baker. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2654, Longitude: -116.0750 |
| <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. |
| <3> | 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. |