Nearest Communities to Shumway,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Shumway, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Shumway:
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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Shumway.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Shumway is located in Lassen County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lassen County: Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama & Washoe (NV).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Shumway.
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 Shumway (which is Lassen 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 Shumway
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lassen County (where Shumway resides)
- County Website: www.co.lassen.ca.us/
- County Seat for Lassen: Susanville
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of California
- Lassen County
- From Family Search:
- State of California
- Lassen County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of California
- Lassen County
- Nearest Communities to Shumway ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Shumway.
- Horse Lake ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Horse Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horse Lake
- Horse Lake is located in Lassen County
- Antelope ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast) - Crest
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east) - Ravendale
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravendale
- Ravendale is located in Lassen County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ravendale <5>
- Termo
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Termo
- Termo is located in Lassen County
- Stones Landing
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stones Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stones Landing
- Stones Landing is located in Lassen County
- Karlo ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast) - Moran ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north) - The Crossing
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for The Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Crossing
- The Crossing is located in Lassen County
- Spalding Tract
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spalding Tract have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spalding Tract
- Spalding Tract is located in Lassen County
- Belfast
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfast
- Belfast is located in Lassen County
- Brockman
(18 miles [29 km] to the north) - Continue List (21 more) ...
- Susanville Indian Rancheria
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Susanville Indian Rancheria have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Susanville Indian Rancheria
- Susanville Indian Rancheria is located in Lassen County
- Sheepshead
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sheepshead have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheepshead
- Sheepshead is located in Lassen County
- Leavitt
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leavitt
- Leavitt is located in Lassen County
- Viewland
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast) - Susanville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Susanville
- Susanville is located in Lassen County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 14,425 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Susanville <5>
- Johnstonville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Johnstonville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstonville
- Johnstonville is located in Lassen County
- Litchfield
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Litchfield
- Litchfield is located in Lassen County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Litchfield <5>
- Standish
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Standish
- Standish is located in Lassen County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Standish <5>
- Madeline
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madeline
- Madeline is located in Lassen County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Madeline <5>
- Pinnio
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - Edgemont ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south) - Janesville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Janesville
- Janesville is located in Lassen County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Janesville <5>
- Wendel
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendel
- Wendel is located in Lassen County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wendel <5>
- Goumaz ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest) - Sage Hen
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north) - Evans Place
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Evans Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans Place
- Evans Place is located in Lassen County
- Buntingville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buntingville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buntingville
- Buntingville is located in Lassen County
- Hayden Hill ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hayden Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayden Hill
- Hayden Hill is located in Lassen County
- Avila Place
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Avila Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avila Place
- Avila Place is located in Lassen County
- Norvell
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest) - Westwood Junction
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Westwood Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westwood Junction
- Westwood Junction is located in Lassen County
- Susanville Indian Rancheria
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Shumway) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Shumway. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6968, Longitude: -120.4911 In this case, the coordinates for Shumway 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> | 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
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