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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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

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 Website:   https://www.co.moore.tx.us/
    • 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)
        • Etter is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etter
      • Bryden
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Bryden is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryden
      • Sheerin Junction
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Sheerin Junction is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheerin Junction
      • Machovec
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Machovec is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Machovec
      • Sheerin
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Sheerin is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheerin
      • Sunray
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Dumas
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Stallwitz Lake
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Stallwitz Lake is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stallwitz Lake
      • Capps Switch
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Capps Switch is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capps Switch
      • Middlewell
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
        • Middlewell is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlewell
      • Bautista
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Bautista is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bautista
      • Four Way
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Four Way is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Way
      • Exell
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Exell is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exell
      • Masterson
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Masterson is located in Moore County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masterson
  • Dallam County
    • County Website:   https://www.dallam.org/
    • 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)
        • Conlen is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conlen
      • Irwin
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Irwin is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
      • Chamberlin
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Chamberlin is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chamberlin
      • Hitt
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Hitt is located in Dallam County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitt
      • Dalhart
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Hansford County
  • Hartley County
  • Hutchinson County
  • Sherman County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.sherman.tx.us/
    • 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)
        • Lautz is located in Sherman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lautz
      • Brickel
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Brickel is located in Sherman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brickel
      • Stratford
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Stevens
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Stevens is located in Sherman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stevens

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- Cactus) 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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