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Nearest Communities to Brown,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Brown.<1>

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

Brown is located in Martin County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Martin County: Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Glasscock, Howard & Midland.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 45 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Brown. Of these communities, 36 are located in counties other than Martin 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 Brown (which is Martin 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 Brown

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

  • Martin County   (where Brown resides)
    • County Website:   http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Martin:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Brown   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Brown.
      • Flower Grove
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Flower Grove is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Grove
      • Merrick
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Merrick is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrick
      • Lenorah
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Grady
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Grady is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
      • Three Leagues
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Three Leagues is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Leagues
      • Tarzan
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Stanton
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Courtney
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Courtney is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courtney
      • Dix
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Dix is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dix
  • Andrews County
  • Borden County
  • Dawson County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.dawson.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Lamesa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Brown   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Brown.
      • Ackerly
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Sparenberg
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Sparenberg is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparenberg
      • Klondike
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Klondike is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klondike
      • Tenmile
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Tenmile is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile
      • Fivemile
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Fivemile is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile
      • Midway
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Midway is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Patricia
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Patricia is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patricia
      • Key
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Key is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key
      • Friendship
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Friendship is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
      • Los Ybanez
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Los Ybanez is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Ybanez
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
      • Lamesa
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Lamesa is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamesa
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,131 people
        • Lamesa has also been known as:
        • La Mesa
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lamesa <3>
      • Union
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Union is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
      • Arvana
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Arvana is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arvana
      • Hancock
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Hancock is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
  • Glasscock County
  • Howard County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.howard.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Howard:   Big Spring
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Brown   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Brown.
      • Knott
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Vealmoor
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Fairview
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Fairview is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Luther
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Luther is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
      • Morita
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
        • Morita is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morita
      • Big Spring
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Webb Village
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Webb Village is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
      • Lomax
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Lomax is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lomax
      • Elbow
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Elbow is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbow
      • South Haven
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • South Haven is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
      • Ziler
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Ziler is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ziler
      • Midway
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Midway is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Sand Springs
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Sand Springs is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
        • Coahoma
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Vincent
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Vincent is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
        • Forsan
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Midland 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Brown) 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.