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Nearest Communities to Garlock,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Garlock.<1>

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

Garlock 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 60 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Garlock. Of these communities, 12 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 Garlock (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 Garlock

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

  • Kern County   (where Garlock resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.kerncounty.com/
    • County Seat for Kern:   Bakersfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Garlock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Garlock.
      • Old Garlock
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Old Garlock is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Garlock
      • Goler Heights
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Goler Heights is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goler Heights
      • Rand
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Rand is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rand
      • Ceneda
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Ceneda is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ceneda
      • Saltdale ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Randsburg
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Johannesburg
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Teagle ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Teagle is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teagle
      • Gypsite
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Gypsite is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsite
      • Searles
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Searles is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searles
      • Redrock ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Redrock is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redrock
      • Terese ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Terese is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terese
      • Continue List   (36 more) ...
        • Harts Place
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Harts Place is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harts Place
        • Cantil
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Ricardo
          (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
          • Ricardo is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ricardo
        • Armistead
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Little Dixie ‑ Historic
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
          • Little Dixie is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Dixie
        • Rancho Seco
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
          • Rancho Seco is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancho Seco
        • Freeman ‑ Historic
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • China Lake Acres
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
          • China Lake Acres is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Lake Acres
        • Inyokern
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Ridgecrest
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Cinco
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Cinco is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cinco
        • China Lake
          (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Indian Wells
          (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
          • Indian Wells is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Wells
        • Neuralia ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Neuralia is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neuralia
        • Bradys
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
          • Bradys is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradys
        • Leliter ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
          • Leliter is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leliter
        • Aerial Acres
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Aerial Acres is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aerial Acres
        • California City
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Trescape ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Trescape is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trescape
        • Sageland ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Brown ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Brown is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
        • Baker
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • Baker is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker
        • West Baker ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
          • West Baker is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Baker
        • North Edwards
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Canebrake ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Canebrake is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canebrake
        • North Muroc ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
          • North Muroc is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Muroc
        • Silt
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
          • Silt is located in Kern County
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        • Boron
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Desert Lake
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Desert Lake is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert Lake
        • Cambio ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Cambio is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambio
        • Rich
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Rich is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rich
        • Solon ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Solon is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solon
        • Bissell
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Bissell is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bissell
        • Fram ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Fram is located in Kern County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fram
        • Claraville
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Shady Rest ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Shady Rest is located in Kern County
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  • Inyo 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Garlock) 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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