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Nearest Communities to Ventucopa,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 Ventucopa.<1>

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

Ventucopa is located in Santa Barbara County.

The following 3 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Santa Barbara County: Kern, San Luis Obispo & Ventura.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 60 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ventucopa. Of these communities, 41 are located in counties other than Santa Barbara 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 Ventucopa (which is Santa Barbara 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 Ventucopa

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

  • Santa Barbara County   (where Ventucopa resides)
  • Kern County
  • Ventura County
    • County Website:   https://venturacounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Ventura:   Ventura
    • Note: The southwestern boundary of the county is on the Pacific Ocean
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ventucopa   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ventucopa.
      • Stauffer
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Stauffer is located in Ventura County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stauffer
      • Vickers Hot Springs
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Vickers Hot Springs is located in Ventura County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vickers Hot Springs
      • Wheeler Springs
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Wheeler Springs is located in Ventura County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Springs
      • Matilija Springs
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Matilija Springs is located in Ventura County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matilija Springs
      • Ojala
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Ojala is located in Ventura County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ojala
      • Arbolada
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Arbolada is located in Ventura County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arbolada
      • Meiners Oaks
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Meiners Oaks is located in Ventura County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meiners Oaks
      • Mira Monte
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Matilija
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Matilija is located in Ventura County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matilija
      • Ojai
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • El Rincon
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • El Rincon is located in Ventura County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Rincon
      • Live Oak Acres
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Live Oak Acres is located in Ventura County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Live Oak Acres
      • Santa Ana
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Santa Ana is located in Ventura County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Ana

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Ventucopa) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.