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Nearest Communities to Buena Vista,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Buena Vista.<1>

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

Buena Vista is located in Pecos County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pecos County: Brewster, Crane, Jeff Davis, Reeves, Terrell & Ward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Buena Vista. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Pecos 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 Buena Vista (which is Pecos 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 Buena Vista

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

  • Pecos County   (where Buena Vista resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.pecos.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Pecos:   Fort Stockton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buena Vista   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buena Vista.
      • Abell City
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Abell City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abell City
        • Abell City is located in Pecos County
      • Imperial
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Horsehead Crossing
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Horsehead Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horsehead Crossing
        • Horsehead Crossing is located in Pecos County
      • Baldridge
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baldridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baldridge
        • Baldridge is located in Pecos County
      • Girvin
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Adobe Crossing
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Adobe Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adobe Crossing
        • Adobe Crossing is located in Pecos County
      • Guild
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Guild have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guild
        • Guild is located in Pecos County
      • Bodieville
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bodieville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodieville
        • Bodieville is located in Pecos County
        • Bodieville has also been known as:
        • Bodieville Colonia
      • Little Mexico
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Mexico have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Mexico
        • Little Mexico is located in Pecos County
        • Little Mexico has also been known as:
        • Little Mexico Colonia
      • Coyanosa
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coyanosa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyanosa
        • Coyanosa is located in Pecos County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Coyanosa <4>
      • Fort Stockton
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Stockton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Stockton
        • Fort Stockton is located in Pecos County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,373 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Stockton <4>
      • Bakersfield
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bakersfield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bakersfield
        • Bakersfield is located in Pecos County
  • Crane County
    • County Seat for Crane:   Crane
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buena Vista   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buena Vista.
      • Horsehead Crossing ‑ Historic
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Horsehead Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horsehead Crossing
        • Horsehead Crossing is located in Crane County
      • Tubbs Corner
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tubbs Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tubbs Corner
        • Tubbs Corner is located in Crane County
      • Crane
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Upton County
  • Ward County
    • County Seat for Ward:   Monahans
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Buena Vista   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Buena Vista.
      • Grandfalls
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grandfalls have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandfalls
        • Grandfalls is located in Ward County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 403 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grandfalls <4>
      • Royalty
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Monahans
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Thorntonville
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Thorntonville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorntonville
        • Thorntonville is located in Ward County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 558 people

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- Buena Vista) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Buena Vista. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.2113, Longitude: -102.6407       In this case, the coordinates for Buena Vista have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.




 

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