Nearest Communities to Lookout City,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Lookout City, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Lookout City:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Lookout City 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 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lookout City.
After starting with the home county for Lookout City (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 Lookout City
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Inyo County (where Lookout City resides)
- County Website: https://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 Lookout City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Lookout City.
- Panamint Springs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Lane Mill ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Lane Mill is located in Inyo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lane Mill
- Darwin
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Junction Ranch
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Millspaugh ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Millspaugh is located in Inyo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millspaugh
- Reilly ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Ballarat ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Indian Ranch
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Death Valley Charcoal Kilns ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Harrisburg ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Skidoo ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Panamint City ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Homewood Canyon - Valley Wells
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Cerro Gordo ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Stovepipe Wells
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Keeler
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Valley Wells
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Haiwee
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
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- Lookout City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Lookout City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
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