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Nearest Communities to Cactus,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northwest 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 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 from Cactus.<1>

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

Cactus is located in Moore County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Moore County: Carson, Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Oldham, Potter & Sherman.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cactus. Of these communities, 15 are located in counties other than Moore 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 Cactus (which is Moore 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 Cactus

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

  • Moore County   (where Cactus resides)
    • County Seat for Moore:   Dumas
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cactus   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cactus.
      • Etter
        (Less than 2 miles to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Etter have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etter
        • Etter is located in Moore County
      • Bryden
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bryden have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryden
        • Bryden is located in Moore County
      • Sheerin Junction
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sheerin Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheerin Junction
        • Sheerin Junction is located in Moore County
      • Machovec
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Machovec have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Machovec
        • Machovec is located in Moore County
      • Sheerin
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sheerin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheerin
        • Sheerin is located in Moore County
      • Sunray
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunray have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunray
        • Sunray is located in Moore County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,785 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sunray <4>
      • Dumas
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Stallwitz Lake
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stallwitz Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stallwitz Lake
        • Stallwitz Lake is located in Moore County
      • Capps Switch
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Capps Switch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capps Switch
        • Capps Switch is located in Moore County
      • Middlewell
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Middlewell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlewell
        • Middlewell is located in Moore County
      • Bautista
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bautista have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bautista
        • Bautista is located in Moore County
      • Four Way
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Four Way have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Way
        • Four Way is located in Moore County
      • Exell
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Exell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exell
        • Exell is located in Moore County
      • Masterson
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masterson
        • Masterson is located in Moore County
  • Dallam County
    • County Website:   www.dallam.org/county/
    • County Seat for Dallam:   Dalhart
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cactus   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cactus.
      • Conlen
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Conlen have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conlen
        • Conlen is located in Dallam County
      • Irwin
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Irwin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
        • Irwin is located in Dallam County
      • Chamberlin
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chamberlin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chamberlin
        • Chamberlin is located in Dallam County
      • Hitt
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hitt have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitt
        • Hitt is located in Dallam County
      • Dalhart
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Hansford County
  • Hartley County
    • County Seat for Hartley:   Channing
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cactus   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cactus.
      • Exum
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Exum have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exum
        • Exum is located in Hartley County
      • Wilco
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wilco have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilco
        • Wilco is located in Hartley County
      • Hartley
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Channing
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Hutchinson County
  • Sherman County
    • County Seat for Sherman:   Stratford
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cactus   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cactus.
      • Lautz
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lautz have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lautz
        • Lautz is located in Sherman County
      • Brickel
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brickel have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brickel
        • Brickel is located in Sherman County
      • Stratford
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Stevens
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stevens have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stevens
        • Stevens is located in Sherman 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 from Point A (ie- Cactus) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cactus. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0444, Longitude: -102.0081       In this case, the coordinates for Cactus 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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