Nearest Communities to Bowers City,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Bowers City, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Bowers City:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Bowers City.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Bowers City is located in Gray County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gray County: Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Roberts & Wheeler.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 40 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Bowers City. Of these communities, 27 are located in counties other than Gray 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 Bowers City (which is Gray 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 Bowers City
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Gray County (where Bowers City resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.gray.tx.us/
- County Seat for Gray: Pampa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bowers City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bowers City.
- Lefors
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Wesco
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Wesco is located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wesco
- Kingsmill Camp
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Kingsmill Camp is located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsmill Camp
- Pampa
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Kingsmill ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Kingsmill is located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsmill
- Mesilla Park
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Mesilla Park is located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesilla Park
- Heaton
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Heaton is located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
- Hoover
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Hoover is located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover
- Back
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Back is located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Back
- Denworth
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Denworth is located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denworth
- Alanreed
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Laketon
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Laketon is located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laketon
- McLean
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Armstrong County
- County Website: https://www.co.armstrong.tx.us/
- County Seat for Armstrong: Claude
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bowers City ...
- Goodnight
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Carson County
- County Website: https://www.co.carson.tx.us/
- County Seat for Carson: Panhandle
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bowers City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bowers City.
- White Deer
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Cargray
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Cargray is located in Carson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cargray
- Skellytown
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Groom
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Cuyler
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Cuyler is located in Carson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuyler
- Lark
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Lark is located in Carson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lark
- Panhandle
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Conway
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Conway is located in Carson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conway
- Hillard
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Hillard is located in Carson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillard
- Abell
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Abell is located in Carson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abell
- Donley County
- County Website: https://www.co.donley.tx.us/
- County Seat for Donley: Clarendon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bowers City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bowers City.
- Jericho
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Jericho is located in Donley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jericho
- Boydston
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Boydston is located in Donley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boydston
- Rockledge
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Rockledge is located in Donley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockledge
- Howardwick
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Howardwick is located in Donley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howardwick
- Population from the 2020 Census: 398 people
- Ashtola
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Ashtola is located in Donley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashtola
- Hutchinson County
- County Website: https://www.co.hutchinson.tx.us/
- County Seat for Hutchinson: Stinnett
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bowers City ...
- Texroy
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Texroy is located in Hutchinson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texroy
- Roberts County
- County Website: https://www.co.roberts.tx.us/
- County Seat for Roberts: Miami
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bowers City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bowers City.
- Wayside
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Wayside is located in Roberts County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayside
- Codman
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Codman is located in Roberts County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Codman
- Miami
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Lora
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Lora is located in Roberts County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lora
- Wheeler County
- County Website: https://www.wheelercounty.texas.gov/
- County Seat for Wheeler: Wheeler
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Bowers City ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Bowers City.
- Bellco
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Bellco is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellco
- Kellerville
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Kellerville is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellerville
- New Mobeetie
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- New Mobeetie is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Mobeetie
- Mobeetie
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Pakan
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Pakan is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pakan
- Magic City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Magic City is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magic City
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bowers City) 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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