Nearest Communities to Sand Pass,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sand Pass, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sand Pass:
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 Sand Pass.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sand Pass is located in 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 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sand Pass. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Washoe 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 Sand Pass (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 Sand Pass
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Washoe County (where Sand Pass resides)
- County Website: https://washoecounty.gov/
- County Seat for Washoe: Reno
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sand Pass ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand Pass.
- Sano
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Sano is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sano
- Zenobia ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Zenobia is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zenobia
- Flanigan
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Flanigan is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flanigan
- Smoke Creek
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Smoke Creek is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoke Creek
- Sheepshead
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Sheepshead is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheepshead
- Reynard
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Reynard is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynard
- Buffalo Meadows ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Buffalo Meadows is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Meadows
- Sutcliffe
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Sutcliffe is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutcliffe
- Pyramid ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Pyramid is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pyramid
- Phil
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Phil is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phil
- Upper Pyramid ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Upper Pyramid is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Pyramid
- Lassen County
- County Website: https://co.lassen.ca.us/
- County Seat for Lassen: Susanville (CA)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sand Pass ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand Pass.
- Stacy
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Stacy is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacy
- Calneva
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Calneva is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calneva
- Herlong
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Patton Village
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Patton Village is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patton Village
- Doyle
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Wendel
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Omira
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Omira is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omira
- Herlong Junction
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Herlong Junction is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herlong Junction
- Viewland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Viewland is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viewland
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 from Point A (ie- Sand Pass) 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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