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Nearest Communities to Willow Ranch,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 starting from Willow Ranch.<1>

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

Willow Ranch is located in Modoc County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Modoc County: Lassen, Shasta, Siskiyou, Washoe (NV), Klamath (OR) & Lake (OR).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Willow Ranch. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Modoc 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 Willow Ranch (which is Modoc 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 Willow Ranch

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

  • Modoc County   (where Willow Ranch resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.modoc.ca.us/
    • County Seat for Modoc:   Alturas
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Willow Ranch   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Willow Ranch.
      • Fairport
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Fairport is located in Modoc County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairport
      • New Pine Creek
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • New Pine Creek is located in Modoc County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Pine Creek
      • Fort Bidwell
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Davis Creek
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Fletcher Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Fletcher Place is located in Modoc County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Place
      • Grizzlie Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Grizzlie Place is located in Modoc County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grizzlie Place
      • Mulkey Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Mulkey Place is located in Modoc County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mulkey Place
      • Lake City
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Surprise Station
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Surprise Station is located in Modoc County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Surprise Station
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Cedarville Rancheria
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
          • Cedarville Rancheria is located in Modoc County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarville Rancheria
        • Cedarville
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Daphnedale Park
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Daphnedale Park is located in Modoc County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daphnedale Park
        • Alturas Indian Rancheria
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Alturas
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Alturas is located in Modoc County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alturas
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,542 people
          • Former name for Alturas:
          • Dorrisville
          • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alturas <3>
        • Lakeview Junction
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Lakeview Junction is located in Modoc County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Junction
  • Washoe County
  • Lake County
    • County Website:   https://www.lakecountyor.org/
    • County Seat for Lake:   Lakeview (OR)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Willow Ranch   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Willow Ranch.
      • New Pine Creek
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Hot Springs ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Hot Springs is located in Lake County (OR)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
      • West Side
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • West Side is located in Lake County (OR)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Side
      • Five Corners
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Five Corners is located in Lake County (OR)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Corners
      • Lakeview
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • New Idaho
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • New Idaho is located in Lake County (OR)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Idaho
      • Vistillas ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Vistillas is located in Lake County (OR)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vistillas
      • Drews Valley ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Drews Valley is located in Lake County (OR)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drews Valley
      • Adel
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Willow Ranch) 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.