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Nearest Communities to Abilene,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Abilene.<1>

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

Abilene is primarily located in Taylor County and is the County Seat. A portion of Abilene extends into Jones County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Taylor County: Callahan, Coleman, Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Runnels & Shackelford.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 55 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Abilene. Of these communities, 34 are located in counties other than Taylor 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 Abilene (which is Taylor 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 Abilene

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

  • Taylor County   (where Abilene resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.taylorcounty.texas.gov/
    • County Seat for Taylor:   Abilene
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Abilene   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Abilene.
      • Impact
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
        • Impact is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Impact
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
      • Elmdale
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Elmdale is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmdale
      • Wylie
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Wylie is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wylie
      • Hamby
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Tye
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Tye is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tye
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tye <3>
      • Caps
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Caps is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caps
      • Potosi
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • View
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • View is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for View
      • Buffalo Gap
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Cozart
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Cozart is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cozart
      • Mount Pleasant
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Mount Pleasant is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
      • Tuscola
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Merkel
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Ovalo
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Rogers
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
          • Rogers is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogers
        • Blair
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
          • Blair is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair
        • Lawn
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Trent
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Guion
          (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
          • Guion is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guion
        • Bradshaw
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
          • Bradshaw is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradshaw
        • Shep
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
          • Shep is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shep
  • Callahan County
  • Coleman County
  • Fisher County
  • Jones County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.jones.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Jones:   Anson
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Abilene   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Abilene.
      • North Abilene
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • North Abilene is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Abilene
      • Hawley
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Fort Phantom Hill ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Fort Phantom Hill is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Phantom Hill
      • Hodges
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Hodges is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodges
      • Phantom Hill
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Phantom Hill is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phantom Hill
      • Stith
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Nugent
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Nugent is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nugent
      • Truby
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Truby is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truby
      • Funston
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Noodle
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Noodle is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noodle
      • Anson
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Lueders
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
  • Nolan County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.nolan.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Nolan:   Sweetwater
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Abilene   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Abilene.
      • Toland
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Toland is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toland
      • Grimes
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Grimes is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimes
      • Herndon
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
        • Herndon is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herndon
      • Tesco
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Tesco is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tesco
  • Runnels County
  • Shackelford County

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- Abilene) 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.