Nearest Communities to Zurich,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Zurich, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Zurich:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
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 south 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 Zurich.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Zurich<2> is historic,<3> it would have been located within present day 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 42 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Zurich. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Inyo County.
After starting with the home county for Zurich (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 Zurich
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Inyo County (where Zurich resides)
- County Website: https://www.inyocounty.us/
- County Seat for Inyo: Independence
- Note: The western boundary of the county is defined by the Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Zurich ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Zurich.
- Monola ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Monola is located in Inyo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monola
- Big Pine
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Elna ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Elna is located in Inyo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elna
- Fish Springs
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Keough Hot Springs
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Sage Flat
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Wilkerson
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Bigelow ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Glacier Lodge ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Poleta ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Peterson Mill ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Sunland
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
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- Aberdeen Station ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Bishop
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Aberdeen
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Laws
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Owensville ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- West Bishop ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Chrysopolis ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Chrysopolis is located in Inyo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chrysopolis
- Brockmans Corner
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Dixon Lane - Meadow Creek
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Oteys Sierra Village ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Parchers Camp ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Rocking K
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Blackrock
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- South Fork / Mountain View
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Starlite Estates
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Aspendell
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Deep Springs
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Camp Sabrina ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Alta Vista
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Mesa
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Round Valley
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- San Carlos ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Rovana
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Scheelite ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Bend City ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Independence
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Kearsarge ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Seven Pines ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Mono County
- County Website: https://www.monocounty.ca.gov/
- County Seat for Mono: Bridgeport
- Note: The western boundary of the county is defined by the Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Zurich ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Zurich.
- Chalfant Valley
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Mesa Camp
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Zurich) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | Zurich is also known as Zurich Station. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Zurich. |
| <3> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Zurich, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
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