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Nearest Communities to Coso,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Coso is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Inyo County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Inyo County: Fresno, Kern, Mono, San Bernardino, Tulare, Clark (NV), Esmeralda (NV) & Nye (NV).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Coso. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Inyo County.

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 Coso (which is Inyo 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 Coso

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

  • Inyo County   (where Coso resides)
    • 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   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Coso   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Coso.
      • Little Lake ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Coso Junction
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coso Junction
        • Coso Junction is located in Inyo County
      • Sykes ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sykes
        • Sykes is located in Inyo County
      • Narka ‑ Historic
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Narka. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narka
        • Narka is located in Inyo County
      • Dunmovin
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunmovin
        • Dunmovin is located in Inyo County
        • Dunmovin has also been known as:
        • Dun Movin
        • Dun Moving
        • Dunmoving
      • Talus ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talus
        • Talus is located in Inyo County
      • Linnie ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Linnie have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linnie
        • Linnie is located in Inyo County
      • Haiwee
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Haiwee. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haiwee
        • Haiwee is located in Inyo County
        • Haiwee has also been known as:
        • Enchanted Lake Village
      • Pearsonville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearsonville
        • Pearsonville is located in Inyo County
      • Grant
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant
        • Grant is located in Inyo County
      • Olancha
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Junction Ranch
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junction Ranch
        • Junction Ranch is located in Inyo County
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Cartago
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartago
          • Cartago is located in Inyo County
        • Millspaugh ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Millspaugh have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millspaugh
          • Millspaugh is located in Inyo County
        • Darwin
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Lane Mill ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lane Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lane Mill
          • Lane Mill is located in Inyo County
        • Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Kern County
    • County Website:   www.co.kern.ca.us/
    • County Seat for Kern:   Bakersfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Coso   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Coso.
      • Brown ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brown have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
        • Brown is located in Kern County
      • Canebrake ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Canebrake have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canebrake
        • Canebrake is located in Kern County
      • Bradys
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bradys have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradys
        • Bradys is located in Kern County
      • Leliter ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leliter have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leliter
        • Leliter is located in Kern County
      • Indian Wells
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Wells
        • Indian Wells is located in Kern County
      • Inyokern
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • China Lake Acres
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for China Lake Acres have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Lake Acres
        • China Lake Acres is located in Kern County
      • Onyx
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Freeman ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman
        • Freeman is located in Kern County
      • China Lake
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Ridgecrest
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Weldon
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Armistead
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armistead
        • Armistead is located in Kern County
      • Terese ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Terese have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terese
        • Terese is located in Kern County
  • San Bernardino County

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- Coso) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Coso. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9783, Longitude: -117.9295       In this case, the coordinates for Coso have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Coso, 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>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.
<6>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.




 

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