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Nearest Communities to Goler Heights,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Goler Heights.<1>

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


Goler Heights 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 55 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Goler Heights. Of these communities, 14 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 Goler Heights (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 Goler Heights

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

  • Kern County   (where Goler Heights resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.kerncounty.com/
    • County Seat for Kern:   Bakersfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Goler Heights   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Goler Heights.
      • Rand
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • Rand is located in Kern County
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      • Garlock
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Garlock is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garlock
      • Teagle ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Teagle is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teagle
      • Old Garlock
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Old Garlock is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Garlock
      • Randsburg
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Searles
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Searles is located in Kern County
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      • Johannesburg
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Terese ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Terese is located in Kern County
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      • Ceneda
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Ceneda is located in Kern County
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      • Saltdale ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Saltdale is located in Kern County
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      • Harts Place
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Harts Place is located in Kern County
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      • Gypsite
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Gypsite is located in Kern County
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        • Armistead
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
          • Armistead is located in Kern County
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        • Redrock ‑ Historic
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
          • Redrock is located in Kern County
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        • China Lake Acres
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
          • China Lake Acres is located in Kern County
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        • Ridgecrest
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Freeman ‑ Historic
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
          • Freeman is located in Kern County
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        • Cantil
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Ricardo
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
          • Ricardo is located in Kern County
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        • Inyokern
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Little Dixie ‑ Historic
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
          • Little Dixie is located in Kern County
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        • China Lake
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Rancho Seco
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Rancho Seco is located in Kern County
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        • Indian Wells
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Indian Wells is located in Kern County
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        • Cinco
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
          • Cinco is located in Kern County
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        • Bradys
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
          • Bradys is located in Kern County
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        • Leliter ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
          • Leliter is located in Kern County
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        • Aerial Acres
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Aerial Acres is located in Kern County
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        • Neuralia ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Neuralia is located in Kern County
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        • Brown ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Brown is located in Kern County
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        • California City
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Baker
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Baker is located in Kern County
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        • West Baker ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • West Baker is located in Kern County
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        • Sageland ‑ Historic
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
          • Sageland is located in Kern County
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        • Trescape ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Trescape is located in Kern County
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        • Canebrake ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Canebrake is located in Kern County
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        • North Edwards
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • North Edwards is located in Kern County
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        • Boron
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Desert Lake
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Desert Lake is located in Kern County
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        • North Muroc ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • North Muroc is located in Kern County
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        • Silt
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Silt is located in Kern County
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  • Inyo County
  • San Bernardino County
    • County Website:   https://main.sbcounty.gov/
    • County Seat for San Bernardino:   San Bernardino
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Goler Heights   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Goler Heights.
      • Red Mountain
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Atolia ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Atolia is located in San Bernardino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atolia
      • Saint Elmo ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Saint Elmo is located in San Bernardino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Elmo
      • Spangler ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Spangler is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Fremont
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Fremont is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Skytop
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Skytop is located in San Bernardino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skytop
      • Pinnacle ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Pinnacle is located in San Bernardino County
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      • South Trona
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • South Trona is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Westend
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Westend is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Borosolvay
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Borosolvay is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Argus
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Argus is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Searles Valley
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Searles Valley is located in San Bernardino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searles Valley

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Goler Heights) 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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