Nearest Communities to Rice,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Rice, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Rice:
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 Rice is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day 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 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rice. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than San Bernardino County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Rice (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 Rice
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- San Bernardino County (where Rice resides)
- County Website: www.sbcounty.gov/
- County Seat for San Bernardino: San Bernardino
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of California
- San Bernardino County
- From Family Search:
- State of California
- San Bernardino County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of California
- San Bernardino County
- Nearest Communities to Rice ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Rice.
- Freda
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west) - Sablon
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest) - Vidal Junction
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vidal Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vidal Junction
- Vidal Junction is located in San Bernardino County
- Vidal
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east) - Milligan
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest) - Calzona
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east) - Big River
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big River
- Big River is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Big River <5>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Big River
- From Rice to Big River
- Fishel
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Riverside County
- County Website: www.co.riverside.ca.us/
- County Seat for Riverside: Riverside
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of California
- Riverside County
- From Family Search:
- State of California
- Riverside County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of California
- Riverside County
- Nearest Communities to Rice ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Rice.
- Styx
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south) - Midland ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midland
- Midland is located in Riverside County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Midland
- From Rice to Midland
- Cox
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south) - Inca
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Mesaville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast) - Tosco ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- La Paz County
- County Website: www.co.la-paz.az.us/
- County Seat for La Paz: Parker (AZ)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Arizona
- La Paz County
- From Family Search:
- State of Arizona
- La Paz County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Arizona
- La Paz County
- Nearest Communities to Rice ...
- Poston
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poston
- Poston is located in La Paz County (AZ)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Poston <5>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Poston
- From Rice to Poston
- Poston
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- Rice) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rice. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0839, Longitude: -114.8504 In this case, the coordinates for Rice have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Rice, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |