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Nearest Communities to Sonora Junction,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 from Sonora Junction.<1>

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

Sonora Junction is located in Mono County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mono County: Alpine, Fresno, Inyo, Madera, Tuolumne, Douglas (NV), Esmeralda (NV), Lyon (NV) & Mineral (NV).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 48 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sonora Junction. Of these communities, 27 are located in counties other than Mono 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 Sonora Junction (which is Mono 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 Sonora Junction

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

  • Mono County   (where Sonora Junction resides)
  • Alpine County
    • County Website:   www.co.alpine.ca.us/
    • County Seat for Alpine:   Markleeville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sonora Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sonora Junction.
      • Peaceful Pines
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peaceful Pines have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peaceful Pines
        • Peaceful Pines is located in Alpine County
      • Grays Crossing
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grays Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grays Crossing
        • Grays Crossing is located in Alpine County
      • Centerville ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Centerville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
        • Centerville is located in Alpine County
      • Silver Mountain ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Mountain have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Mountain
        • Silver Mountain is located in Alpine County
      • Loope ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Mount Bullion ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Bullion have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Bullion
        • Mount Bullion is located in Alpine County
      • Markleeville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Cape Horn
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cape Horn have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cape Horn
        • Cape Horn is located in Alpine County
      • Marklee Village
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marklee Village have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marklee Village
        • Marklee Village is located in Alpine County
  • Tuolumne County
    • County Website:   www.tuolumnecounty.ca.gov
    • County Seat for Tuolumne:   Sonora
    • Note: The eastern boundary of the county is defined by the Sierra Nevada Mountains
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sonora Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sonora Junction.
      • Kennedy Meadow
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kennedy Meadow have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennedy Meadow
        • Kennedy Meadow is located in Tuolumne County
      • Dardanelle
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Wagner
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wagner have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
        • Wagner is located in Tuolumne County
      • Bumblebee
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Cow Creek
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cow Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cow Creek
        • Cow Creek is located in Tuolumne County
  • Douglas County
    • County Website:   www.co.douglas.nv.us/
    • County Seat for Douglas:   Minden (NV)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sonora Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sonora Junction.
      • Topaz Lake
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Holbrook Junction
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holbrook Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holbrook Junction
        • Holbrook Junction is located in Douglas County (NV)
      • Mountain House ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain House have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain House
        • Mountain House is located in Douglas County (NV)
  • Lyon County
    • County Website:   www.lyon-county.org/
    • County Seat for Lyon:   Yerington (NV)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sonora Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sonora Junction.
      • Sweetwater ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sweetwater have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
        • Sweetwater is located in Lyon County (NV)
      • Sulfur
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sulfur have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulfur
        • Sulfur is located in Lyon County (NV)
      • Elbow Stage Station ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elbow Stage Station have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbow Stage Station
        • Elbow Stage Station is located in Lyon County (NV)
      • Hoye ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hoye have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoye
        • Hoye is located in Lyon County (NV)
      • Wellington
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Pine Grove ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Wichman
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Mineral County
    • County Seat for Mineral:   Hawthorne (NV)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sonora Junction   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sonora Junction.
      • Del Monte ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Fletcher
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fletcher have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher
        • Fletcher is located in Mineral County (NV)
      • Aurora ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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- Sonora Junction) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sonora Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3485, Longitude: -119.4523    
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>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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