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Nearest Communities to Andrews,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 from Andrews.<1>

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

Andrews is located in Andrews County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Andrews County: Lea (NM), Ector, Gaines, Martin, Midland & Winkler.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Andrews. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Andrews 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 Andrews (which is Andrews 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 Andrews

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

  • Andrews County   (where Andrews resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.andrews.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Andrews:   Andrews
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Andrews   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Andrews.
      • Waldon Place Windmill
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Waldon Place Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldon Place Windmill
        • Waldon Place Windmill is located in Andrews County
      • Shafter Lake ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shafter Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shafter Lake
        • Shafter Lake is located in Andrews County
      • Florey
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Old Place Windmills
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Place Windmills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Place Windmills
        • Old Place Windmills is located in Andrews County
      • Frankel City ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frankel City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frankel City
        • Frankel City is located in Andrews County
      • Sixteen Corner Windmill
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sixteen Corner Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sixteen Corner Windmill
        • Sixteen Corner Windmill is located in Andrews County
      • Coyote Corner
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Ector County
    • County Website:   www.co.ector.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Ector:   Odessa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Andrews   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Andrews.
      • Scharbauer City
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scharbauer City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scharbauer City
        • Scharbauer City is located in Ector County
      • North Cowden
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Cowden have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Cowden
        • North Cowden is located in Ector County
      • Goldsmith
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goldsmith have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldsmith
        • Goldsmith is located in Ector County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 277 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goldsmith <5>
      • Gardendale
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Turnbaugh Corner
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Turnbaugh Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnbaugh Corner
        • Turnbaugh Corner is located in Ector County
      • Notrees
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Notrees have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Notrees
        • Notrees is located in Ector County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Notrees <5>
  • Gaines 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- Andrews) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Andrews. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.3250, Longitude: -102.5485    
<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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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