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Nearest Communities to Arah,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

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

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

Arah is located in Scurry County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Scurry County: Borden, Fisher, Garza, Howard, Kent, Mitchell & Nolan.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Arah. Of these communities, 14 are located in counties other than Scurry 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 Arah (which is Scurry 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 Arah

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

  • Scurry County   (where Arah resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.scurry.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Scurry:   Snyder
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Arah   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Arah.
      • Franklin Center
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Franklin Center is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin Center
      • Knapp
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Knapp is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knapp
      • Union
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Union is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
      • Fluvanna
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Dermott
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Dermott is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dermott
      • Brand
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Brand is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brand
      • Snyder
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Fullerville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Fullerville is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fullerville
      • Ira
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Dunn
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Hermleigh
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • China Grove
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • China Grove is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Grove
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Camp Springs
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Camp Springs is located in Scurry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Springs
        • Midway
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
          • Midway is located in Scurry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
        • Hudd
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Hudd is located in Scurry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hudd
        • Inadale
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Inadale is located in Scurry County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inadale
  • Borden County
  • Garza County
  • Howard County
  • Kent County
  • Mitchell County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.mitchell.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Mitchell:   Colorado City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Arah   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Arah.
      • Cuthbert ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Cuthbert is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuthbert
      • Buford
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Buford is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buford
      • Valley View
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Valley View is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley View
      • Westbrook
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Iatan
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Iatan is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iatan
      • Colorado City
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Arah) 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.