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Nearest Communities to Simmler,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Simmler.<1>

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

Simmler is located in San Luis Obispo County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of San Luis Obispo County: Kern, Kings, Monterey, Santa Barbara & Ventura.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Simmler. Of these communities, 20 are located in counties other than San Luis Obispo 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 Simmler (which is San Luis Obispo 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 Simmler

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

  • San Luis Obispo County   (where Simmler resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.slocounty.ca.gov/
    • County Seat for San Luis Obispo:   San Luis Obispo
    • Note: The western boundary of the county is on the Pacific Ocean
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Simmler   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Simmler.
      • California Valley
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
        • California Valley is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for California Valley
      • Wolforts ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Wolforts is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolforts
      • Martinez Place
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Martinez Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinez Place
      • Todd Place
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Todd Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Todd Place
      • La Panza ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Navajo ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Navajo is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo
      • Renshaw Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Renshaw Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Renshaw Place
      • Hubert Place
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Hubert Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hubert Place
      • Hathaway Place
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Hathaway Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hathaway Place
      • Reeves Place
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Reeves Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeves Place
      • Pozo
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Pozo is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pozo
      • Pippin Corner
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Pippin Corner is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pippin Corner
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Wilson Corner
          (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
          • Wilson Corner is located in San Luis Obispo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilson Corner
        • Musick ‑ Historic
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Musick is located in San Luis Obispo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Musick
        • Huasna
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Huasna is located in San Luis Obispo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huasna
        • Shandon
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Kern County

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 from Point A (ie- Simmler) 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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