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Nearest Communities to Rocking K,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 from Rocking K.<1>

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


Rocking K is located in 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 45 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rocking K. Of these communities, 12 are located in counties other than Inyo County.

After starting with the home county for Rocking K (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 Rocking K

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 from Point A (ie- Rocking K) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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