Nearest Communities to Sands,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sands, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sands:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 from Sands.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sands 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 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sands.
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 Sands (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 Sands
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- San Bernardino County (where Sands 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 Sands ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sands.
- Glasgow ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast) - Balch
(5 miles [8 km] to the west) - Kerens ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast) - Belfast ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west) - Flynn
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east) - Zzyzx
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zzyzx
- Zzyzx is located in San Bernardino County
- Former names for Zzyzx:
- Camp Soda
- Soda Springs
- Crucero
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west) - King ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west) - Kelso
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelso
- Kelso is located in San Bernardino County
- Beacon Station
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beacon Station have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beacon Station
- Beacon Station is located in San Bernardino County
- Broadwell
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest) - Hayden
(18 miles [29 km] to the east) - Continue List (26 more) ...
- Baker
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker
- Baker is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Baker <5>
- Baxter ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west) - Cronese Valley
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cronese Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cronese Valley
- Cronese Valley is located in San Bernardino County
- Cronise ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west) - Basin
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west) - Rainbow Wells
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rainbow Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow Wells
- Rainbow Wells is located in San Bernardino County
- Ash Hill
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south) - Ludlow
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
- Ludlow is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ludlow <5>
- Elora
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east) - Halloran Springs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Halloran Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halloran Springs
- Halloran Springs is located in San Bernardino County
- Klondike
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south) - Afton ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Afton
- Afton is located in San Bernardino County
- Argos
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest) - Ragtown ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest) - Chase
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast) - Siberia ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siberia
- Siberia is located in San Bernardino County
- New Dunn
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west) - Yucca Grove
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yucca Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yucca Grove
- Yucca Grove is located in San Bernardino County
- Lavic ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavic
- Lavic is located in San Bernardino County
- Dunn
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west) - Cima
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cima
- Cima is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cima <5>
- Thomas Place
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Thomas Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas Place
- Thomas Place is located in San Bernardino County
- Pisgah
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Stedman ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Midway
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west) - Bagdad ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bagdad
- Bagdad is located in San Bernardino County
- Baker
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sands) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sands. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0153, Longitude: -115.9428 In this case, the coordinates for Sands have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <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. |