Nearest Communities to Big Spring,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Big Spring, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Big Spring:
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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Big Spring is located in Howard County and is the County Seat.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Howard County: Borden, Dawson, Glasscock, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Scurry & Sterling.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Big Spring. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Howard 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 Spring (which is Howard 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 Spring
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Howard County (where Big Spring resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.howard.tx.us/
- County Seat for Howard: Big Spring
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Big Spring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Spring.
- Webb Village
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Webb Village is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
- South Haven
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- South Haven is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
- Ziler
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Ziler is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ziler
- Elbow
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Elbow is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbow
- Midway
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Midway is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Sand Springs
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Sand Springs is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
- Fairview
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Fairview is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Morita
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Morita is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morita
- Coahoma
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Forsan
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lomax
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Lomax is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lomax
- Luther
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Luther is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
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- Knott
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Ross City ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Ross City is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross City
- Otis Chalk ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Otis Chalk is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis Chalk
- Vealmoor
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Vincent
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Vincent is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
- Dawson County
- County Website: https://www.co.dawson.tx.us/
- County Seat for Dawson: Lamesa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Big Spring ...
- Ackerly
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Glasscock County
- County Website: https://www.co.glasscock.tx.us/
- County Seat for Glasscock: Garden City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Big Spring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Spring.
- Lees
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Lees is located in Glasscock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lees
- Old Houston Place
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Old Houston Place is located in Glasscock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Houston Place
- Garden City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Martin County
- County Website: http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
- County Seat for Martin: Stanton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Big Spring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Spring.
- Brown
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Brown is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
- Stanton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Merrick
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Merrick is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrick
- Lenorah
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Dix
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Dix is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dix
- Courtney
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Courtney is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courtney
- Flower Grove
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Flower Grove is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Grove
- Grady
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Grady is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
- Tarzan
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Midland County
- County Website: https://www.co.midland.tx.us/
- County Seat for Midland: Midland
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Big Spring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Spring.
- Greenwood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Greenwood is located in Midland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
- Germania
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Germania is located in Midland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germania
- Spraberry
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Spraberry is located in Midland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spraberry
- Mitchell County
- County Website: https://www.co.mitchell.tx.us/
- County Seat for Mitchell: Colorado City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Big Spring ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Big Spring.
- Hyman
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Hyman is located in Mitchell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyman
- Iatan
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Iatan is located in Mitchell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iatan
- Westbrook
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Spade
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Spade is located in Mitchell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spade
- Sterling County
- County Website: https://www.co.sterling.tx.us/
- County Seat for Sterling: Sterling City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Big Spring ...
- Iolanthe ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Iolanthe is located in Sterling County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iolanthe
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Big Spring) 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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