Nearest Communities to Fort Stockton,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Fort Stockton, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Fort Stockton:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast 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 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 east 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.
Please note 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.
Fort Stockton is located in Pecos County and is the County Seat.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pecos County: Brewster, Crane, Jeff Davis, Reeves, Terrell & Ward.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 13 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Fort Stockton. Of these communities, 2 are located in counties other than Pecos 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 Stockton (which is Pecos 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 Stockton
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Pecos County (where Fort Stockton resides)
- 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 Stockton ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Fort Stockton.
- Little Mexico
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Mexico have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Mexico
- Little Mexico is located in Pecos County
- Little Mexico has also been known as:
- Little Mexico Colonia
- Bodieville
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bodieville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodieville
- Bodieville is located in Pecos County
- Bodieville has also been known as:
- Bodieville Colonia
- Guild
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north) - Belding
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest) - Baldridge
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast) - Chancellor
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chancellor have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chancellor
- Chancellor is located in Pecos County
- Smith Place
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Smith Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Place
- Smith Place is located in Pecos County
- Buena Vista
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buena Vista have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista
- Buena Vista is located in Pecos County
- Coyanosa
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coyanosa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyanosa
- Coyanosa is located in Pecos County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Coyanosa <4>
- Abell City
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Abell City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abell City
- Abell City is located in Pecos County
- Imperial
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imperial
- Imperial is located in Pecos County
- Imperial has also been known as:
- Imperial Colonia
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Imperial <4>
- Crane County
- County Seat for Crane: Crane
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Crane County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Crane County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Crane County
- Nearest Communities to Fort Stockton ...
- Horsehead Crossing ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Horsehead Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horsehead Crossing
- Horsehead Crossing is located in Crane County
- Horsehead Crossing ‑ Historic
- Ward County
- County Seat for Ward: Monahans
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Ward County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Ward County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Ward County
- Nearest Communities to Fort Stockton ...
- Grandfalls
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grandfalls have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandfalls
- Grandfalls is located in Ward County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 403 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grandfalls <4>
- Grandfalls
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 from Point A (ie- Fort Stockton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Stockton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.8928, Longitude: -102.8857 In this case, the coordinates for Fort Stockton 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. |