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Nearest Communities to Summers,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Summers.<1>

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


Although our information shows that the community of Summers is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Kern County.

The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kern County: Inyo, Kings, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare & Ventura.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 40 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Summers. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Kern County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Summers (which is Kern 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 Summers

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

  • Kern County   (where Summers resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.kerncounty.com/
    • County Seat for Kern:   Bakersfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Summers   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Summers.
      • Packwood ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Packwood is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packwood
      • Kecks Corner
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Kecks Corner is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kecks Corner
      • Annette
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Annette is located in Kern County
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      • Blackwells Corner
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Blackwells Corner is located in Kern County
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      • North Belridge
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • North Belridge is located in Kern County
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      • Lost Hills
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Missouri Triangle
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Missouri Triangle is located in Kern County
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      • Spicer City
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Spicer City is located in Kern County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spicer City
      • Reward ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Reward is located in Kern County
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      • Olig ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Olig is located in Kern County
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      • McKittrick
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Kings County
  • Monterey County
  • San Luis Obispo County
    • 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 Summers   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Summers.
      • Simmler
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Simmler is located in San Luis Obispo County
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      • Wolforts ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Wolforts is located in San Luis Obispo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolforts
      • La Panza ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • La Panza is located in San Luis Obispo County
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      • California Valley
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • California Valley is located in San Luis Obispo County
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      • Navajo ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Navajo is located in San Luis Obispo County
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      • Cholame
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Martinez Place
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Martinez Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
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      • Wilson Corner
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Wilson Corner is located in San Luis Obispo County
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      • Shandon
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Todd Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Todd Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
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      • Pozo
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Pozo is located in San Luis Obispo County
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      • Pippin Corner
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Pippin Corner is located in San Luis Obispo County
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      • Continue List   (14 more) ...
        • Creston
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Huerhuero
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Huerhuero is located in San Luis Obispo County
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        • Whitley Gardens
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
          • Whitley Gardens is located in San Luis Obispo County
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        • Renshaw Place
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Renshaw Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Renshaw Place
        • Hubert Place
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
          • Hubert Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hubert Place
        • Bern
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Bern is located in San Luis Obispo County
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        • Linne
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Linne is located in San Luis Obispo County
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        • Union
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
          • Union is located in San Luis Obispo County
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        • Hathaway Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Hathaway Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
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        • Musick ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Musick is located in San Luis Obispo County
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        • Reeves Place
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
          • Reeves Place is located in San Luis Obispo County
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        • Cushing
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Cushing is located in San Luis Obispo County
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        • Eaglet ‑ Historic
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Eaglet is located in San Luis Obispo County
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        • Garden Farms
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Garden Farms is located in San Luis Obispo County
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Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Summers) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Summers, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.