Nearest Communities to Mount Whitney Station,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Mount Whitney Station, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Mount Whitney Station:
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.
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.
Although our information shows that the community of Mount Whitney Station 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 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mount Whitney Station.
After starting with the home county for Mount Whitney Station (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 Mount Whitney Station
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Inyo County (where Mount Whitney Station 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 Mount Whitney Station ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Mount Whitney Station.
- Lone Pine Station ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Lone Pine
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Owenyo ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Alico ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Alabama Hills
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Boulder Creek
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Dolomite ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lone Pine Creek
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Beveridge ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Mock ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Reward ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Manzanar ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (20 more) ...
- Tramway ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Swansea ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Bartlett
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Keeler
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Whitney Portal
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Kearsarge ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Cerro Gordo ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Bend City ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Independence
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- San Carlos ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Seven Pines ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Cartago
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Olancha
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Blackrock
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Chrysopolis ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Chrysopolis is located in Inyo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chrysopolis
- Grant
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Teakettle Junction ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Aberdeen Station ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Aberdeen
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Mount Whitney Station) 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 Mount Whitney Station, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
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