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Nearest Communities to Cotton Flat,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Cotton Flat is located in Midland County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Midland County: Andrews, Ector, Glasscock, Martin, Reagan & Upton.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 30 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cotton Flat. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Midland 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 Cotton Flat (which is Midland 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 Cotton Flat

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

  • Midland County   (where Cotton Flat resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.midland.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Midland:   Midland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cotton Flat   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cotton Flat.
      • Ridgeheights
        (Less than 2 miles to the north)
        • Ridgeheights is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeheights
      • Sandy Acres
        (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
        • Sandy Acres is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Acres
      • Midland
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Chub
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Chub is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chub
      • Bounce
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Bounce is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bounce
      • Corner Windmill
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Corner Windmill is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Windmill
      • Warfield
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Warfield is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warfield
      • Germania
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Germania is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germania
      • Greenwood
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Greenwood is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
      • Spraberry
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Spraberry is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spraberry
      • Benge Corner
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Benge Corner is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benge Corner
  • Ector County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.ector.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Ector:   Odessa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cotton Flat   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cotton Flat.
      • Odessa
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Gardendale
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Scharbauer City
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Scharbauer City is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scharbauer City
      • Arcade
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Arcade is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcade
      • Pleasant Farms
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Pleasant Farms is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Farms
      • North Cowden
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • North Cowden is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Cowden
      • West Odessa
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • West Odessa is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Odessa
      • Douro
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Douro is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douro
  • Glasscock County
  • Howard County
  • Martin County
    • County Website:   http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Martin:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cotton Flat   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cotton Flat.
      • Dix
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Dix is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dix
      • Courtney
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Courtney is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courtney
      • Stanton
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Tarzan
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Grady
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Grady is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
      • Lenorah
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Upton County

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cotton Flat) 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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