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Nearest Communities to Elbow,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Elbow is located in Howard County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Howard County: Borden, Dawson, Glasscock, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Scurry & Sterling.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Elbow. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Howard 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 Elbow (which is Howard 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 Elbow

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

  • Howard County   (where Elbow resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.howard.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Howard:   Big Spring
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elbow   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elbow.
      • South Haven
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
        • South Haven is also located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
      • Webb Village
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
        • Webb Village is also located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
      • Big Spring
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Morita
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Morita is also located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morita
      • Lomax
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Lomax is also located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lomax
      • Forsan
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Forsan is also located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forsan
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 229 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Forsan <3>
      • Ziler
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Ziler is also located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ziler
      • Midway
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Midway is also located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Ross City ‑ Historic
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Ross City was located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross City
      • Sand Springs
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Sand Springs is also located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
      • Fairview
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Fairview is also located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Otis Chalk ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Otis Chalk was located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis Chalk
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Coahoma
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Knott
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Luther
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
          • Luther is also located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
        • Vealmoor
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Vincent
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Vincent is also located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
  • Dawson County
  • Glasscock County
  • Martin County
    • County Website:   http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Martin:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elbow   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elbow.
      • Stanton
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Dix
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Dix is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dix
      • Brown
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Brown is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
      • Lenorah
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Courtney
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Courtney is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courtney
      • Merrick
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Merrick is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrick
      • Grady
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Grady is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
      • Tarzan
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Flower Grove
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Flower Grove is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Grove
  • Midland County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.midland.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Midland:   Midland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Elbow   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Elbow.
      • Greenwood
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Greenwood is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
      • Spraberry
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Spraberry is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spraberry
      • Germania
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Germania is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germania
  • Mitchell County
  • Sterling County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Elbow) 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.