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Nearest Communities to Wendel,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Wendel is located in Lassen County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lassen County: Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama & Washoe (NV).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wendel. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Lassen 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 Wendel (which is Lassen 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 Wendel

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

  • Lassen County   (where Wendel resides)
  • Plumas County
    • County Website:   https://www.plumascounty.us/
    • County Seat for Plumas:   Quincy
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wendel   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wendel.
      • Doyle Crossing
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Doyle Crossing is located in Plumas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyle Crossing
      • Murdock Crossing
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Murdock Crossing is located in Plumas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murdock Crossing
      • Babcock Crossing
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Babcock Crossing is located in Plumas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Babcock Crossing
      • Crow ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Crow is located in Plumas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow
      • Chases ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Chases is located in Plumas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chases
  • Washoe County
    • County Website:   https://washoecounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Washoe:   Reno (NV)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wendel   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wendel.
      • Flanigan
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Flanigan is located in Washoe County (NV)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flanigan
      • Sheepshead
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Sheepshead is located in Washoe County (NV)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheepshead
      • Sand Pass
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Sand Pass is located in Washoe County (NV)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Pass
      • Sano
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Sano is located in Washoe County (NV)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sano
      • Zenobia ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Zenobia is located in Washoe County (NV)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zenobia
      • Smoke Creek
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Smoke Creek is located in Washoe County (NV)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoke Creek

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- Wendel) 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.