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Nearest Communities to Big Bear Lake,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Big Bear Lake, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Big Bear Lake:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Big Bear Lake.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Big Bear Lake 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 177 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Big Bear Lake. Of these communities, 38 are located in counties other than San Bernardino 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 Big Bear Lake (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 Big Bear Lake

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • San Bernardino County   (where Big Bear Lake resides)
  • Riverside County
    • County Website:   https://rivco.org/
    • County Seat for Riverside:   Riverside
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Big Bear Lake   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Big Bear Lake.
      • Calimesa
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Cherry Valley
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Highland Springs
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Highland Springs is located in Riverside County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Springs
      • Banning
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Beaumont
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Hinda
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Hinda is located in Riverside County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinda
      • Nicklin
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Nicklin is located in Riverside County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nicklin
      • El Casco
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • El Casco is located in Riverside County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Casco
      • Owl
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Owl is located in Riverside County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owl
      • Ordway
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Ordway is located in Riverside County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ordway
      • Cabazon
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Mons
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Mons is located in Riverside County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mons
      • Continue List   (26 more) ...
        • Moonlight Rim
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Moonlight Rim is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moonlight Rim
        • Moreno Knolls
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Moreno Knolls is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moreno Knolls
        • Eden Hot Springs
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Eden Hot Springs is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Hot Springs
        • Bonnie Bell
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Eden
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Eden is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
        • White Water
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • White Water is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Water
        • Moreno
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Moreno is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moreno
        • Serrano Heights
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Serrano Heights is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Serrano Heights
        • Snow Creek
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Snow Creek is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snow Creek
        • Moreno Valley
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Gilman Hot Springs
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • San Jacinto Nuevo Y Potrero
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Highgrove
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Highgrove is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highgrove
        • Sunnymead
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Sunnymead is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnymead
        • Casa Loma
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Casa Loma is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa Loma
        • Belvedere Heights
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Belvedere Heights is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvedere Heights
        • Canyon Crest Heights
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Canyon Crest Heights is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Crest Heights
        • Lemona
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Lemona is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemona
        • Lakeview
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Lakeview is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
        • Soboba Hot Springs
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Soboba Hot Springs is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soboba Hot Springs
        • Desert Hot Springs
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • North Palm Springs
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Bannockburn Village
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Bannockburn Village is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bannockburn Village
        • Box Springs
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Box Springs is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Springs
        • Edgemont
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Edgemont is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgemont
        • March Field
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • March Field is located in Riverside County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for March Field

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Big Bear Lake) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.