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Nearest Communities to Pioneer Point,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 starting from Pioneer Point.<1>

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


Pioneer Point is located in San Bernardino County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of San Bernardino County: La Paz (AZ), Mohave (AZ), Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside & Clark (NV).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Pioneer Point. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than San Bernardino 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 Pioneer Point (which is San Bernardino 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 Pioneer Point

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

  • San Bernardino County   (where Pioneer Point resides)
    • County Website:   https://main.sbcounty.gov/
    • County Seat for San Bernardino:   San Bernardino
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pioneer Point   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pioneer Point.
      • Trona
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Searles Valley
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Searles Valley is located in San Bernardino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searles Valley
      • Argus
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Argus is located in San Bernardino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argus
      • Borosolvay
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Borosolvay is located in San Bernardino County
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      • South Trona
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • South Trona is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Westend
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Westend is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Pinnacle ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Pinnacle is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Skytop
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Skytop is located in San Bernardino County
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      • Spangler ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Spangler is located in San Bernardino County
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  • Inyo County
    • 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 Pioneer Point   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pioneer Point.
      • Valley Wells
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Valley Wells is located in Inyo County
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      • Homewood Canyon - Valley Wells
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Homewood Canyon - Valley Wells is located in Inyo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homewood Canyon - Valley Wells
        • Homewood Canyon - Valley Wells has also been known as:
        • Homewood Canyon
      • Reilly ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Reilly is located in Inyo County
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      • Millspaugh ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Millspaugh is located in Inyo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millspaugh
      • Ballarat ‑ Historic
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Ballarat is located in Inyo County
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      • Indian Ranch
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Indian Ranch is located in Inyo County
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      • Junction Ranch
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Junction Ranch is located in Inyo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junction Ranch
      • Panamint City ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Panamint City is located in Inyo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panamint City
      • Linnie ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Linnie is located in Inyo County
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      • Pearsonville
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Pearsonville is located in Inyo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearsonville
  • Kern County
    • County Website:   https://www.kerncounty.com/
    • County Seat for Kern:   Bakersfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Pioneer Point   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Pioneer Point.
      • China Lake
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Ridgecrest
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • China Lake Acres
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • China Lake Acres is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Lake Acres
      • Searles
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Searles is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searles
      • Leliter ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Leliter is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leliter
      • Terese ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Terese is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terese
      • Brown ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Brown is located in Kern County
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      • Inyokern
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Teagle ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Teagle is located in Kern County
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      • Bradys
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Bradys is located in Kern County
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      • Indian Wells
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Indian Wells is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Wells

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- Pioneer Point) 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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