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Nearest Communities to Altuda,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 from Altuda.<1>

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


Altuda is located in Brewster County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Brewster County: Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio & Terrell.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Altuda. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Brewster 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 Altuda (which is Brewster 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 Altuda

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

  • Brewster County   (where Altuda resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.brewstercounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Brewster:   Alpine
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Altuda   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Altuda.
      • Lenox
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Lenox is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lenox
      • Edwards Place
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Edwards Place is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards Place
      • Beatty Place
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Beatty Place is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty Place
      • Alpine
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Old Beekley Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Old Beekley Place is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Beekley Place
      • Titley
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Titley is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Titley
      • Marathon
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Fourmile Crossing
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Fourmile Crossing is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile Crossing
      • Youngblood Place
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Youngblood Place is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngblood Place
      • Toronto
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Toronto is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toronto
      • Mitchell Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Mitchell Place is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchell Place
      • Ansley Place
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Ansley Place is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ansley Place
      • Continue List   (15 more) ...
        • Shoemaker Place
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
          • Shoemaker Place is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoemaker Place
        • Walker Place
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
          • Walker Place is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker Place
        • Old Parker Place
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Old Parker Place is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Parker Place
        • Louis Granger Place
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Louis Granger Place is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louis Granger Place
        • Old Oscar Nance Place
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Old Oscar Nance Place is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Oscar Nance Place
        • Causey Place
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Causey Place is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Causey Place
        • Warwick
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
          • Warwick is located in Brewster County
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        • Hovey ‑ Historic
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
          • Hovey is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hovey
        • Bennett Place ‑ Historic
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Bennett Place is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett Place
        • Kriebaum Place
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Kriebaum Place is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kriebaum Place
        • Old Reed Place
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Old Reed Place is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Reed Place
        • Old Edith Lochausen Place
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Matthews Place
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Matthews Place is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matthews Place
        • McFarland Place
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • McFarland Place is located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McFarland Place
        • Haymond
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
          • Haymond is located in Brewster County
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  • Presidio County
  • San Patricio County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Altuda) 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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