Nearest Communities to Vidal,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Vidal, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Vidal:
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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Vidal is located in San Bernardino County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of San Bernardino County: La Paz (AZ), Mohave (AZ), Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside & Clark (NV).
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Vidal. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than San Bernardino 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 Vidal (which is San Bernardino 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 Vidal
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- San Bernardino County (where Vidal resides)
- County Website: https://main.sbcounty.gov/
- County Seat for San Bernardino: San Bernardino
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vidal ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vidal.
- Calzona
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Calzona is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calzona
- Vidal Junction
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Vidal Junction is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vidal Junction
- Big River
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Earp
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Bluewater
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Bluewater is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluewater
- Cross Roads
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Cross Roads is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Roads
- Rice ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Rice is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice
- Tin Shack ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Tin Shack is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tin Shack
- Freda
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Freda is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freda
- Havasu Palms
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Havasu Palms is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havasu Palms
- Parker Dam
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Black Meadow Landing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Black Meadow Landing is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Meadow Landing
- Havasu Lake
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Havasu Lake is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havasu Lake
- Sablon
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Sablon is located in San Bernardino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sablon
- Riverside County
- County Website: https://rivco.org/
- County Seat for Riverside: Riverside
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vidal ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vidal.
- Styx
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Styx is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Styx
- Cox
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Cox is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cox
- Midland ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Midland is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midland
- Inca
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Inca is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inca
- Tosco ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Tosco is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tosco
- Mesaville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Mesaville is located in Riverside County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesaville
- La Paz County
- County Website: https://www.lapaz.gov/
- County Seat for La Paz: Parker (AZ)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vidal ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vidal.
- Poston
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Parker
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Bluewater
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Bluewater is located in La Paz County (AZ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluewater
- Cienega Springs
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Cienega Springs is located in La Paz County (AZ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cienega Springs
- Parker Strip
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Parker Strip is located in La Paz County (AZ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker Strip
- La Paz ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- La Paz is located in La Paz County (AZ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Paz
- Mohave County
- County Website: https://www.mohave.gov/
- County Seat for Mohave: Kingman (AZ)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vidal ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vidal.
- Lake Havasu City
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Larneds Landing
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Larneds Landing is located in Mohave County (AZ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larneds Landing
- Jops Landing
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Jops Landing is located in Mohave County (AZ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jops Landing
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- Vidal) 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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