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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance 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: https://washoecounty.gov/
- County Seat for Washoe: Reno
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sheepshead ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sheepshead.
- Smoke Creek
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Smoke Creek is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoke Creek
- Buffalo Meadows ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Buffalo Meadows is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Meadows
- Reynard
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Reynard is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynard
- Sano
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Sano is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sano
- Sand Pass
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Sand Pass is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Pass
- Flanigan
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Flanigan is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flanigan
- Phil
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Phil is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phil
- Zenobia ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Zenobia is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zenobia
- Deep Hole ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Deep Hole is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Hole
- Empire
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Gerlach - Empire
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Gerlach - Empire is located in Washoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerlach - Empire
- Gerlach
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lassen County
- County Website: https://co.lassen.ca.us/
- County Seat for Lassen: Susanville (CA)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sheepshead ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sheepshead.
- Stacy
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Stacy is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacy
- Wendel
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Viewland
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Viewland is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viewland
- Calneva
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Calneva is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calneva
- Karlo ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Karlo is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Karlo
- Former name for Karlo:
- Secret
- Herlong
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Patton Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Patton Village is located in Lassen County (CA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patton Village
- Litchfield
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sheepshead) 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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