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Nearest Communities to Dana Point,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Dana Point is located in Orange County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Orange County: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino & San Diego.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 219 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Dana Point. Of these communities, 63 are located in counties other than Orange 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 Dana Point (which is Orange 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 Dana Point

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

  • Orange County   (where Dana Point resides)
  • Riverside County
  • San Diego County
    • County Website:   https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/
    • County Seat for San Diego:   San Diego
    • Note: The Pacific Ocean lies to the west and the nation of Mexico lies to the south
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Dana Point   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Dana Point.
      • San Onofre
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Agra
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Agra is located in San Diego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agra
      • Don ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Don is located in San Diego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Don
      • Las Flores ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Las Flores is located in San Diego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Flores
      • Santa Margarita Y Las Flores
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • De Luz
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • De Luz is located in San Diego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Luz
      • Stuart
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Stuart is located in San Diego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stuart
      • Chappo
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Chappo is located in San Diego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chappo
      • Jofegan
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Jofegan is located in San Diego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jofegan
      • Yaldora
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Yaldora is located in San Diego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaldora
      • De Luz Heights
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • De Luz Heights is located in San Diego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Luz Heights
      • De Luz Station
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • De Luz Station is located in San Diego County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Luz Station
      • Continue List   (17 more) ...
        • Fallbrook Junction
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Fallbrook Junction is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fallbrook Junction
        • Ysidora ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Ysidora is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ysidora
        • DeLuz
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • DeLuz is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeLuz
        • Fallbrook
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Oceanside
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • San Luis Rey
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Escondido Junction
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Escondido Junction is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Escondido Junction
        • Oceana
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • Oceana is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oceana
        • Ridgecrest Estates
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Ridgecrest Estates is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgecrest Estates
        • Winterwarm
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Winterwarm is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winterwarm
        • South Oceanside
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • South Oceanside is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Oceanside
        • Talich
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Talich is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talich
        • San Luis Rey Heights
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • San Luis Rey Heights is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Luis Rey Heights
        • Bonsall
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Carlsbad
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Guajome
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • Guajome is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guajome
        • Monserate
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Monserate is located in San Diego County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monserate

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- Dana Point) 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.