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Nearest Communities to Forsan,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest 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 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.

Forsan 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 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Forsan. Of these communities, 14 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 Forsan (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 Forsan

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

  • Howard County   (where Forsan resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.howard.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Howard:   Big Spring
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Forsan   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Forsan.
      • Ross City ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
        • Ross City is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross City
      • Otis Chalk ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Otis Chalk is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis Chalk
      • South Haven
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
        • South Haven is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
      • Elbow
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Elbow is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbow
      • Webb Village
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Webb Village is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
      • Midway
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Midway is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Sand Springs
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Sand Springs is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
      • Ziler
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Ziler is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ziler
      • Big Spring
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Coahoma
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Lomax
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Lomax is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lomax
      • Morita
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Morita is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morita
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Fairview
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Fairview is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
        • Luther
          (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
          • Luther is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
        • Knott
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Vincent
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • Vincent is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
        • Vealmoor
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Glasscock County
  • Martin County
  • Midland County
  • Mitchell County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.mitchell.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Mitchell:   Colorado City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Forsan   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Forsan.
      • Hyman
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Hyman is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyman
      • Iatan
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Iatan is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iatan
      • Spade
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Spade is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spade
      • Westbrook
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Sterling 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Forsan) 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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