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Nearest Communities to Valley Wells,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 starting from Valley Wells.<1>

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

Valley Wells is located in Inyo County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Inyo County: Fresno, Kern, Mono, San Bernardino, Tulare, Clark (NV), Esmeralda (NV) & Nye (NV).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Valley Wells. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Inyo 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 Valley Wells (which is Inyo 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 Valley Wells

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

  • Inyo County   (where Valley Wells resides)
  • Kern County
    • County Website:   www.co.kern.ca.us/
    • County Seat for Kern:   Bakersfield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Valley Wells   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Valley Wells.
      • China Lake
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Ridgecrest
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • China Lake Acres
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for China Lake Acres have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Lake Acres
        • China Lake Acres is located in Kern County
      • Inyokern
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Searles
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Searles have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searles
        • Searles is located in Kern County
      • Brown ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
        • Brown is located in Kern County
      • Leliter ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leliter have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leliter
        • Leliter is located in Kern County
      • Terese ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Terese have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terese
        • Terese is located in Kern County
  • San Bernardino County
    • County Website:   www.sbcounty.gov/
    • County Seat for San Bernardino:   San Bernardino
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Valley Wells   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Valley Wells.
      • Pioneer Point
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pioneer Point have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Point
        • Pioneer Point is located in San Bernardino County
      • Trona
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Searles Valley
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Searles Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searles Valley
        • Searles Valley is located in San Bernardino County
      • Argus
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Borosolvay
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Borosolvay have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borosolvay
        • Borosolvay is located in San Bernardino County
      • South Trona
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Trona have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Trona
        • South Trona is located in San Bernardino County
      • Westend
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Pinnacle ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Pinnacle. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinnacle
        • Pinnacle is located in San Bernardino County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Pinnacle
        • From Valley Wells to Pinnacle
      • Skytop
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Skytop have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skytop
        • Skytop is located in San Bernardino County
      • Spangler ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Spangler. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spangler
        • Spangler is located in San Bernardino County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Spangler
        • From Valley Wells to Spangler

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Valley Wells) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Valley Wells. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8279, Longitude: -117.3315    
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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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