Nearest Communities to Fort Lancaster,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Fort Lancaster, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Fort Lancaster:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Fort Lancaster.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Fort Lancaster is located in Crockett County.
The following 9 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Crockett County: Crane, Irion, Pecos, Reagan, Schleicher, Sutton, Terrell, Upton & Val Verde.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 5 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fort Lancaster. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Crockett 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 Fort Lancaster (which is Crockett 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 Fort Lancaster
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Crockett County (where Fort Lancaster resides)
- County Seat for Crockett: Ozona
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Crockett County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Crockett County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Crockett County
- Nearest Communities to Fort Lancaster ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Lancaster.
- Four Corner Windmill
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Four Corner Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Corner Windmill
- Four Corner Windmill is located in Crockett County
- Ozona
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ozona have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozona
- Ozona is located in Crockett County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ozona <4>
- Pecos County
- County Website: www.co.pecos.tx.us/
- County Seat for Pecos: Fort Stockton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Pecos County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Pecos County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Pecos County
- Nearest Communities to Fort Lancaster ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Lancaster.
- Sheffield
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sheffield have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffield
- Sheffield is located in Pecos County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sheffield <4>
- Iraan
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iraan have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iraan
- Iraan is located in Pecos County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,221 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Iraan <4>
- Terrell County
- County Seat for Terrell: Sanderson
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Terrell County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Terrell County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Terrell County
- Nearest Communities to Fort Lancaster ...
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- Fort Lancaster) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Lancaster. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.6668, Longitude: -101.6960 In this case, the coordinates for Fort Lancaster have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |