RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Texas >> Val Verde County >> Bakers Crossing >> Nearby CommunitiesIndex...

Nearest Communities to Bakers Crossing,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 Bakers Crossing.<1>

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

Bakers Crossing is located in Val Verde County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Val Verde County: Crockett, Edwards, Kinney, Sutton & Terrell.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bakers Crossing. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Val Verde 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 Bakers Crossing (which is Val Verde 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 Bakers Crossing

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

  • Val Verde County   (where Bakers Crossing resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.valverdecounty.texas.gov/
    • County Seat for Val Verde:   Del Rio
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Bakers Crossing   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Bakers Crossing.
      • Juno
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Juno is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juno
      • Lull
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Lull is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lull
      • Corner Windmill
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Corner Windmill is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Windmill
      • Comstock
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Shumla
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Shumla is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shumla
      • Loma Alta
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Loma Alta is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma Alta
      • Vinegarone
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
        • Vinegarone is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinegarone
      • Devils Shores
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Devils Shores is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Shores
      • Langtry
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Pandale ‑ Historic
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Pandale is located in Val Verde County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pandale
        • Rough Canyon
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
          • Rough Canyon is located in Val Verde County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rough Canyon
          • Rough Canyon has also been known as:
          • Rough Canyon Colonia
        • Box Canyon - Amistad
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Box Canyon - Amistad is located in Val Verde County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Canyon - Amistad
        • Box Canyon Estates
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
          • Box Canyon Estates is located in Val Verde County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Canyon Estates
        • Amistad Acres
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
          • Amistad Acres is located in Val Verde County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amistad Acres
          • Amistad Acres has also been known as:
          • Amistad
        • Osman
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
          • Osman is located in Val Verde County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osman
  • Edwards County
  • Uvalde 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 from Point A (ie- Bakers Crossing) 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.