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Nearest Communities to Big Wells,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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 Wells is located in Dimmit County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dimmit County: Frio, La Salle, Maverick, Webb & Zavala.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Big Wells. Of these communities, 28 are located in counties other than Dimmit 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 Wells (which is Dimmit 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 Wells

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

  • Dimmit County   (where Big Wells resides)
  • Frio County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.frio.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Frio:   Pearsall
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Big Wells   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Big Wells.
      • Parks Corner Windmill
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Divot ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Dilley
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Hilltop
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Hilltop is located in Frio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
        • Hilltop has also been known as:
        • Hilltop Colonia
      • Derby
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Cude Crossing Windmill
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • La Salle County
  • Zavala County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.zavala.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Zavala:   Crystal City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Big Wells   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Big Wells.
      • Chula Vista - River Spur
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Chula Vista
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Chula Vista is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chula Vista
        • Chula Vista has also been known as:
        • Chula Vista Colonia
      • River Spur
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • River Spur is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Spur
      • Popeye Lake
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Popeye Lake is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Popeye Lake
        • Popeye Lake has also been known as:
        • Popeye Lake Colonia
      • Crystal City
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Amaya
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Amaya is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amaya
        • Amaya has also been known as:
        • Amaya Colonia
      • Bushy Creek
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Bushy Creek is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushy Creek
        • Bushy Creek has also been known as:
        • Bushy Creek Colonia
      • Camposanto - Elcometa
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Camposanto - Elcometa is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camposanto - Elcometa
        • Camposanto - Elcometa has also been known as:
        • Camposanto - Elcometa Colonia
      • Las Colonias
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Las Colonias is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Las Colonias
      • Loma Grande
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Loma Grande is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma Grande
        • Loma Grande has also been known as:
        • Loma Grande Colonia
      • Triangula
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Triangula is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triangula
        • Triangula has also been known as:
        • Triangula Colonia
      • Bee Crest
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Bee Crest is located in Zavala County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bee Crest
        • Bee Crest has also been known as:
        • Bee Crest Colonia
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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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Big Wells) 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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