Nearest Communities to Benton,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Benton, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Benton:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Benton.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Benton is located in Mono County.
The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mono County: Alpine, Fresno, Inyo, Madera, Tuolumne, Douglas (NV), Esmeralda (NV), Lyon (NV) & Mineral (NV).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Benton. Of these communities, 20 are located in counties other than Mono 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 Benton (which is Mono 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 Benton
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Mono County (where Benton resides)
- County Website: www.monocounty.ca.gov/
- County Seat for Mono: Bridgeport
- Note: The western boundary of the county is defined by the Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of California
- Mono County
- From Family Search:
- State of California
- Mono County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of California
- Mono County
- Nearest Communities to Benton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Benton.
- Montgomery City ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montgomery City
- Montgomery City is located in Mono County
- Benton Hot Springs
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton Hot Springs
- Benton Hot Springs is located in Mono County
- Hammil
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammil
- Hammil is located in Mono County
- Pizona ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest) - Benton Crossing
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Benton Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton Crossing
- Benton Crossing is located in Mono County
- North Landing
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Landing
- North Landing is located in Mono County
- Chalfant Valley
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalfant Valley
- Chalfant Valley is located in Mono County
- Tom's Place
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tom's Place
- Tom's Place is located in Mono County
- South Landing
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Landing
- South Landing is located in Mono County
- Mesa Camp
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Camp
- Mesa Camp is located in Mono County
- Aspen Springs
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aspen Springs
- Aspen Springs is located in Mono County
- Whitmore Hot Springs
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitmore Hot Springs
- Whitmore Hot Springs is located in Mono County
- Former names for Whitmore Hot Springs:
- Whitmore Tub Spring
- Whitmore Tubs
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- Convict Lake
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Convict Lake
- Convict Lake is located in Mono County
- Mono Mills ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mono Mills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mono Mills
- Mono Mills is located in Mono County
- Crestview
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crestview
- Crestview is located in Mono County
- Mammoth Lakes
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mammoth Lakes
- Mammoth Lakes is located in Mono County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,317 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mammoth Lakes <4>
- Old Mammoth
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Mammoth
- Old Mammoth is located in Mono County
- Convict Lake
- Inyo County
- County Website: www.inyocounty.us/
- County Seat for Inyo: Independence
- Note: The western boundary of the county is defined by the Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of California
- Inyo County
- From Family Search:
- State of California
- Inyo County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of California
- Inyo County
- Nearest Communities to Benton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Benton.
- Alta Vista
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alta Vista
- Alta Vista is located in Inyo County
- Mesa
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa
- Mesa is located in Inyo County
- Round Valley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Valley
- Round Valley is located in Inyo County
- Rovana
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rovana
- Rovana is located in Inyo County
- Laws
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laws
- Laws is located in Inyo County
- Former name for Laws:
- Bishop Depot
- Owensville ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Owensville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owensville
- Owensville is located in Inyo County
- Brockmans Corner
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockmans Corner
- Brockmans Corner is located in Inyo County
- Dixon Lane - Meadow Creek
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixon Lane - Meadow Creek
- Dixon Lane - Meadow Creek is located in Inyo County
- Esmeralda County
- County Seat for Esmeralda: Goldfield (NV)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Esmeralda County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Esmeralda County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Esmeralda County
- Nearest Communities to Benton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Benton.
- Gold Hit
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast) - Oneota ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast) - Arlemont ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east) - Dyer
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyer
- Dyer is located in Esmeralda County (NV)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dyer <4>
- The Crossing
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for The Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Crossing
- The Crossing is located in Esmeralda County (NV)
- Fish Lake ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east) - Calmville ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Mineral County
- County Seat for Mineral: Hawthorne (NV)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Mineral County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Mineral County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Mineral County
- Nearest Communities to Benton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Benton.
- Mount Montgomery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Montgomery
- Mount Montgomery is located in Mineral County (NV)
- Bley ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast) - Basalt
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast) - Candelaria Junction ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Candelaria Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candelaria Junction
- Candelaria Junction is located in Mineral County (NV)
- Marietta ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marietta
- Marietta is located in Mineral County (NV)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Benton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Benton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.8183, Longitude: -118.4770 |
| <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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |