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Nearest Communities to China Lake Acres,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.<1>

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


China Lake Acres is located in Kern County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kern County: Inyo, Kings, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare & Ventura.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 54 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of China Lake Acres. Of these communities, 22 are located in counties other than Kern 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 China Lake Acres (which is Kern 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 China Lake Acres

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

  • Kern County   (where China Lake Acres resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.kerncounty.com/
    • County Seat for Kern:   Bakersfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to China Lake Acres   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from China Lake Acres.
      • Inyokern
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • China Lake
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Ridgecrest
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Terese ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Terese is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terese
      • Leliter ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Leliter is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leliter
      • Indian Wells
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Indian Wells is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Wells
      • Bradys
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Bradys is located in Kern County
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      • Freeman ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Freeman is located in Kern County
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      • Brown ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Brown is located in Kern County
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      • Armistead
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Armistead is located in Kern County
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      • Searles
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Searles is located in Kern County
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      • Goler Heights
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Goler Heights is located in Kern County
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      • Continue List   (20 more) ...
        • Harts Place
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Harts Place is located in Kern County
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        • Rand
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
          • Rand is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rand
        • Teagle ‑ Historic
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Teagle is located in Kern County
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        • Garlock
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
          • Garlock is located in Kern County
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        • Little Dixie ‑ Historic
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Little Dixie is located in Kern County
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        • Old Garlock
          (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
          • Old Garlock is located in Kern County
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        • Canebrake ‑ Historic
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
          • Canebrake is located in Kern County
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        • Johannesburg
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Randsburg
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Saltdale ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
          • Saltdale is located in Kern County
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        • Ceneda
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Ceneda is located in Kern County
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        • Ricardo
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
          • Ricardo is located in Kern County
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        • Gypsite
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Gypsite is located in Kern County
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        • Redrock ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Redrock is located in Kern County
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        • Cantil
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Onyx
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Rancho Seco
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Rancho Seco is located in Kern County
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        • Sageland ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Sageland is located in Kern County
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        • Weldon
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Cinco
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Cinco is located in Kern County
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  • Inyo County
    • County Website:   https://www.inyocounty.us/
    • County Seat for Inyo:   Independence
    • Note: The western boundary of the county is defined by the Sierra Nevada Mountains
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to China Lake Acres   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from China Lake Acres.
      • Pearsonville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Pearsonville is located in Inyo County
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      • Linnie ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Linnie is located in Inyo County
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      • Narka ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Narka is located in Inyo County
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      • Little Lake ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Coso ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Coso is located in Inyo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coso
      • Homewood Canyon - Valley Wells
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Homewood Canyon - Valley Wells is located in Inyo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homewood Canyon - Valley Wells
        • Homewood Canyon - Valley Wells has also been known as:
        • Homewood Canyon
      • Valley Wells
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Valley Wells is located in Inyo County
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      • Coso Junction
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Coso Junction is located in Inyo County
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      • Sykes ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Sykes is located in Inyo County
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  • San Bernardino County
    • County Website:   https://main.sbcounty.gov/
    • County Seat for San Bernardino:   San Bernardino
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to China Lake Acres   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from China Lake Acres.
      • Skytop
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Skytop is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Spangler ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Spangler is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Argus
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Argus is located in San Bernardino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argus
      • Borosolvay
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Borosolvay is located in San Bernardino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borosolvay
      • Pinnacle ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Pinnacle is located in San Bernardino County
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      • South Trona
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • South Trona is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Westend
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Westend is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Red Mountain
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Searles Valley
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Searles Valley is located in San Bernardino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searles Valley
      • Trona
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Pioneer Point
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Pioneer Point is located in San Bernardino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Point
      • Atolia ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Atolia is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Saint Elmo ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Saint Elmo is located in San Bernardino County
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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 drawn from Point A (ie- China Lake Acres) 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.
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