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Nearest Communities to Douro,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Douro.<1>

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

Douro is located in Ector County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ector County: Andrews, Crane, Midland, Upton, Ward & Winkler.

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

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

  • Ector County   (where Douro resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.ector.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Ector:   Odessa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Douro   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Douro.
      • Penwell
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • West Odessa
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • West Odessa is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Odessa
      • Arcade
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Arcade is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcade
      • Badger ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Badger is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badger
      • Judkins
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Judkins is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Judkins
      • Metz
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Metz is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metz
      • Odessa
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Pleasant Farms
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Pleasant Farms is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Farms
      • Goldsmith
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • North Cowden
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • North Cowden is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Cowden
      • Notrees
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Turnbaugh Corner
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Turnbaugh Corner is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnbaugh Corner
      • Scharbauer City
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Scharbauer City is located in Ector County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scharbauer City
      • Gardendale
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Andrews County
  • Crane County
  • Midland County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.midland.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Midland:   Midland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Douro   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Douro.
      • Warfield
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Warfield is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warfield
      • Corner Windmill
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Corner Windmill is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Windmill
      • Bounce
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Bounce is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bounce
      • Cotton Flat
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Cotton Flat is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Flat
      • Sandy Acres
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Sandy Acres is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Acres
      • Benge Corner
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
        • Benge Corner is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benge Corner
      • Midland
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Ridgeheights
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Ridgeheights is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeheights
  • Ward County
  • Winkler 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- Douro) 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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