Nearest Communities to Sheepshead,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sheepshead, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sheepshead:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Sheepshead.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sheepshead 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 Sheepshead. Of these communities, 8 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 Sheepshead (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 Sheepshead
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Washoe County (where Sheepshead resides)
- County Website: www.co.washoe.nv.us/
- County Seat for Washoe: Reno
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Nevada
- Washoe County
- From Family Search:
- State of Nevada
- Washoe County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Nevada
- Washoe County
- Nearest Communities to Sheepshead ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sheepshead.
- Smoke Creek
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Smoke Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoke Creek
- Smoke Creek is located in Washoe County
- Buffalo Meadows ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buffalo Meadows have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Meadows
- Buffalo Meadows is located in Washoe County
- Reynard
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east) - Sano
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast) - Sand Pass
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Flanigan
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south) - Phil
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast) - Zenobia ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south) - Deep Hole ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast) - Empire
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
- Empire is located in Washoe County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Empire <4>
- Gerlach - Empire
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerlach - Empire
- Gerlach - Empire is located in Washoe County
- Gerlach
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerlach
- Gerlach is located in Washoe County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gerlach <4>
- Lassen County
- County Website: www.co.lassen.ca.us/
- County Seat for Lassen: Susanville (CA)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of California
- Lassen County
- From Family Search:
- State of California
- Lassen County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of California
- Lassen County
- Nearest Communities to Sheepshead ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sheepshead.
- Stacy
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest) - Wendel
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wendel
- Wendel is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wendel <4>
- Viewland
(23 miles [37 km] to the west) - Calneva
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south) - Karlo ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west) - Herlong
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herlong
- Herlong is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Herlong <4>
- Patton Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Patton Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patton Village
- Patton Village is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Litchfield
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Litchfield
- Litchfield is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Litchfield <4>
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- Sheepshead) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sheepshead. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4816, Longitude: -119.8330 In this case, the coordinates for Sheepshead have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |