Nearest Communities to Crater,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Crater, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Crater:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest 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 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 west 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 Crater.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Crater 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 9 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Crater. Of these communities, 7 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 Crater (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 Crater
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Inyo County (where Crater 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 ...
- 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 Crater ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Crater.
- Deep Springs
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Springs
- Deep Springs is located in Inyo County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Deep Springs
- From Crater to Deep Springs
- Elna ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- 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 Crater ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Crater.
- Sylvania ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north) - Pigeon Spring ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pigeon Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon Spring
- Pigeon Spring is located in Esmeralda County (NV)
- Stateline ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east) - Lida
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lida
- Lida is located in Esmeralda County (NV)
- Lida has also been known as:
- Alida Valley
- Alida
- Lida Valley
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Lida
- From Crater to Lida
- Old Camp
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east) - Gold Point
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Point
- Gold Point is located in Esmeralda County (NV)
- Former names for Gold Point:
- Hornsilver
- Lime Point
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Gold Point
- From Crater to Gold Point
- Tokop ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Crater) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Crater. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2159, Longitude: -117.6876 |
| <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 Crater, 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> | 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. |