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Nearest Communities to Doss,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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

Doss is located in Gillespie County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gillespie County: Blanco, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Llano & Mason.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 40 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Doss. Of these communities, 25 are located in counties other than Gillespie 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 Doss (which is Gillespie 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 Doss

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

  • Gillespie County   (where Doss resides)
    • County Seat for Gillespie:   Fredericksburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Doss   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Doss.
      • Cherry Spring
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cherry Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Spring
        • Cherry Spring is located in Gillespie County
      • Hilltop
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hilltop have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
        • Hilltop is located in Gillespie County
      • Harper
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Cherry Mountain
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cherry Mountain have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Mountain
        • Cherry Mountain is located in Gillespie County
      • Tivydale
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Crabapple ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crabapple have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crabapple
        • Crabapple is located in Gillespie County
      • Morris Ranch ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Fredericksburg
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Eckert
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
  • Kendall County
  • Kerr County
    • County Website:   www.co.kerr.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Kerr:   Kerrville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Doss   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Doss.
      • Mountain Home
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain Home have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Home
        • Mountain Home is located in Kerr County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mountain Home <4>
      • Mount Wesley
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Wesley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Wesley
        • Mount Wesley is located in Kerr County
      • Ingram
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ingram have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
        • Ingram is located in Kerr County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,871 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ingram <4>
      • Kerrville
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Waltonia
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Waltonia have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waltonia
        • Waltonia is located in Kerr County
      • Hunt
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hunt have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunt
        • Hunt is located in Kerr County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hunt <4>
      • Legion
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Legion have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legion
        • Legion is located in Kerr County
      • Cypress Creek
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cypress Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Creek
        • Cypress Creek is located in Kerr County
  • Kimble County
    • County Seat for Kimble:   Junction
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Doss   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Doss.
      • Noxville ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Yates
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yates have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yates
        • Yates is located in Kimble County
  • Llano County
    • County Seat for Llano:   Llano
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Doss   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Doss.
      • Prairie Mountain
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie Mountain have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Mountain
        • Prairie Mountain is located in Llano County
      • Castell
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castell
        • Castell is located in Llano County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Castell <4>
      • Oxford ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oxford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
        • Oxford is located in Llano County
      • Scotts Crossing
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scotts Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotts Crossing
        • Scotts Crossing is located in Llano County
  • Mason County
  • Menard County
    • County Seat for Menard:   Menard
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Doss   ...
      • Erna
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Erna have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erna
        • Erna is located in Menard County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Doss) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Doss. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4447, Longitude: -99.1306    
<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.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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