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Nearest Communities to Manzanar,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Manzanar<2> is historic,<3> 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 34 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Manzanar. Of these communities, 1 are located in counties other than Inyo County.

After starting with the home county for Manzanar (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 Manzanar

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

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Manzanar) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Manzanar. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7400, Longitude: -118.0798       In this case, the coordinates for Manzanar have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>Manzanar is also known as Manzanar Station. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Manzanar.
<3>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 Manzanar, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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.




 

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