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Nearest Communities to Buffalo Meadows,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 starting from Buffalo Meadows.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Buffalo Meadows is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Washoe County.

The following 13 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Washoe County: Lassen (CA), Modoc (CA), Nevada (CA), Placer (CA), Sierra (CA), Carson City, Churchill, Humboldt, Lyon, Pershing, Storey, Harney (OR) & Lake (OR).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Buffalo Meadows. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Washoe County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Buffalo Meadows (which is Washoe 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 Buffalo Meadows

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

  • Washoe County   (where Buffalo Meadows resides)
    • County Website:   https://washoecounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Washoe:   Reno
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buffalo Meadows   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buffalo Meadows.
      • Reynard
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Reynard is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynard
      • Sheepshead
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Sheepshead is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheepshead
      • Smoke Creek
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Smoke Creek is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoke Creek
      • Phil
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Phil is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phil
      • Deep Hole ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Deep Hole is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Hole
      • Sano
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Sano is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sano
      • Empire
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Gerlach - Empire
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Gerlach - Empire is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerlach - Empire
      • Gerlach
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Sand Pass
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Sand Pass is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Pass
      • Hot Springs ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Hot Springs is located in Washoe County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
  • Pershing County
  • Lassen County
    • County Website:   https://co.lassen.ca.us/
    • County Seat for Lassen:   Susanville (CA)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buffalo Meadows   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buffalo Meadows.
      • Stacy
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Stacy is located in Lassen County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacy
      • Viewland
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Viewland is located in Lassen County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viewland
      • Karlo ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Karlo is located in Lassen County (CA)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Karlo
        • Former name for Karlo:
        • Secret

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 from Point A (ie- Buffalo Meadows) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Buffalo Meadows, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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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