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Nearest Communities to Cowden Place,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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 east 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.

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

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

Cowden Place is located in Winkler County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Winkler County: Lea (NM), Andrews, Ector, Loving & Ward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Cowden Place. Of these communities, 24 are located in counties other than Winkler 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 Cowden Place (which is Winkler 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 Cowden Place

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

  • Winkler County   (where Cowden Place resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.winkler.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Winkler:   Kermit
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cowden Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cowden Place.
      • Cheyenne
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Cheyenne is located in Winkler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheyenne
      • Kermit
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Wink
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Wink is located in Winkler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wink
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,014 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wink <3>
      • Magwalt
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Magwalt is located in Winkler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magwalt
      • Vesrue
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Vesrue is located in Winkler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesrue
  • Andrews County
  • Crane County
  • Ector County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.ector.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Ector:   Odessa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cowden Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cowden Place.
      • Metz
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Metz is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metz
      • Judkins
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Judkins is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Judkins
      • Badger ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Badger is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badger
      • Penwell
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Notrees
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Douro
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Douro is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douro
      • Turnbaugh Corner
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Turnbaugh Corner is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnbaugh Corner
      • West Odessa
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • West Odessa is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Odessa
      • Goldsmith
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Arcade
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Arcade is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcade
      • Pleasant Farms
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Pleasant Farms is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Farms
      • North Cowden
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • North Cowden is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Cowden
      • Odessa
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Scharbauer City
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Scharbauer City is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scharbauer City
  • Ward County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.ward.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Ward:   Monahans
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Cowden Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Cowden Place.
      • Monahans
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Thorntonville
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Thorntonville is located in Ward County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorntonville
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 558 people
      • Three Corner Windmill
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Wickett
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Pyote
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Royalty
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Grandfalls
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)

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- Cowden Place) 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.