Nearest Communities to Big Lake,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Big Lake, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Big Lake:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 Big Lake.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Big Lake is located in Reagan County and is the County Seat.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Reagan County: Crockett, Irion, Midland, Sterling & Upton.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Big Lake. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Reagan 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 Big Lake (which is Reagan 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 Big Lake
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Reagan County (where Big Lake resides)
- County Seat for Reagan: Big Lake
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Reagan County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Reagan County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Reagan County
- Nearest Communities to Big Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Lake.
- Witco
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east) - Best ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Best
- Best is located in Reagan County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Best
- From Big Lake to Best
- Four Corner Windmill
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Four Corner Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Corner Windmill
- Four Corner Windmill is located in Reagan County
- Santa Rita
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santa Rita have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Rita
- Santa Rita is located in Reagan County
- Texon ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west) - Stiles ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest) - Crossroads
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crossroads have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crossroads
- Crossroads is located in Reagan County
- Crockett County
- County Seat for Crockett: Ozona
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Crockett County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Crockett County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Crockett County
- Nearest Communities to Big Lake ...
- Irion County
- County Seat for Irion: Mertzon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Irion County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Irion County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Irion County
- Nearest Communities to Big Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Lake.
- Barnhart
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnhart
- Barnhart is located in Irion County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Barnhart <4>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Barnhart
- From Big Lake to Barnhart
- Suggs
(23 miles [37 km] to the east) - Old Burk Place
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Burk Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Burk Place
- Old Burk Place is located in Irion County
- Old Freitag Place
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Freitag Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Freitag Place
- Old Freitag Place is located in Irion County
- Upton County
- County Seat for Upton: Rankin
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Upton County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Upton County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Upton County
- Nearest Communities to Big Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Lake.
- Flat Rock
(23 miles [37 km] to the west) - Rankin
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankin
- Rankin is located in Upton County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 841 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rankin <4>
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Rankin
- From Big Lake to Rankin
- Sevenmile Corner
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sevenmile Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile Corner
- Sevenmile Corner is located in Upton County
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 from Point A (ie- Big Lake) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Big Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.1964, Longitude: -101.4582 |
| <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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |