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Nearest Communities to Los Angeles,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 Los Angeles.<1>

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

Los Angeles is located in La Salle County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of La Salle County: Atascosa, Dimmit, Duval, Frio, McMullen, Webb & Zavala.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Los Angeles. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than La Salle 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 Los Angeles (which is La Salle 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 Los Angeles

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

  • La Salle County   (where Los Angeles resides)
  • Atascosa County
  • Dimmit County
  • Frio County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.frio.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Frio:   Pearsall
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Los Angeles   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Los Angeles.
      • Las Flores
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Las Flores is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Flores
      • Orelia
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Orelia is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orelia
      • Dilley
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Hilltop
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Hilltop is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
        • Hilltop has also been known as:
        • Hilltop Colonia
      • Derby
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Divot ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Melon
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Melon is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melon
      • Parks Corner Windmill
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Goldfinch
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Goldfinch is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldfinch
      • Pearsall East
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Pearsall East is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearsall East
        • Pearsall East has also been known as:
        • Pearsall East Colonia
      • Pearsall
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Alta Vista
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Alta Vista is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alta Vista
        • Alta Vista has also been known as:
        • Alta Vista Colonia
      • Frio Heights
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • Frio Heights is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frio Heights
        • Frio Heights has also been known as:
        • Frio Heights Colonia
      • West Pearsall
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
        • West Pearsall is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pearsall
  • McMullen County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Los Angeles) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.