RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Texas >> Llano County >> Gainesville >> Nearby CommunitiesIndex...

Nearest Communities to Gainesville,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 from Gainesville.<1>

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

Gainesville is located in Llano County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Llano County: Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Mason & San Saba.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 60 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Gainesville. Of these communities, 40 are located in counties other than Llano 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 Gainesville (which is Llano 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 Gainesville

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

  • Llano County   (where Gainesville resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.llano.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Llano:   Llano
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gainesville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gainesville.
      • Kingsland
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Lakeside Heights
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Lakeside Heights is located in Llano County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside Heights
      • Buchanan Dam
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Stolz
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Stolz is located in Llano County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stolz
      • Click ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Click is located in Llano County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Click
      • Sunrise Beach Village
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Golden Beach
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Golden Beach is located in Llano County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Beach
      • Lone Grove
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Lone Grove is located in Llano County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Grove
      • Bluffton
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Llano
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Oxford ‑ Historic
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Oxford is located in Llano County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
      • Buchanan Lake Village
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Horseshoe Bay
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Tow
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Baby Head ‑ Historic
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Baby Head is located in Llano County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baby Head
        • Scotts Crossing
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
          • Scotts Crossing is located in Llano County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotts Crossing
        • Valley Spring
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Prairie Mountain
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
          • Prairie Mountain is located in Llano County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Mountain
        • Castell
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Field Creek
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
          • Field Creek is located in Llano County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Field Creek
  • Blanco County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.blanco.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Blanco:   Johnson City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gainesville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gainesville.
      • Blowout
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Blowout is located in Blanco County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blowout
      • Round Mountain
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Sandy
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Post Oak
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Post Oak is located in Blanco County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Oak
      • Cypress Mill
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Johnson City
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Westbrook ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Westbrook is located in Blanco County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westbrook
      • Rocky Creek
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Rocky Creek is located in Blanco County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Creek
      • Hye
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Burnet County
    • County Website:   https://www.burnetcountytexas.org/
    • County Seat for Burnet:   Burnet
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Gainesville   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Gainesville.
      • Highland Haven
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Highland Haven is located in Burnet County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Haven
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 445 people
      • Granite Shoals
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Sherwood Shores
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Sherwood Shores is located in Burnet County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood Shores
      • Scobee
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Scobee is located in Burnet County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scobee
      • Fairland
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Fairland is located in Burnet County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairland
      • Silver Creek Village
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Silver Creek Village is located in Burnet County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Creek Village
      • Cottonwood Shores
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Meadowlakes
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Meadowlakes is located in Burnet County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowlakes
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,733 people
      • Sudduth
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Sudduth is located in Burnet County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sudduth
      • Marble Falls
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Gandy
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Gandy is located in Burnet County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gandy
      • Mormon Mill ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Mormon Mill is located in Burnet County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mormon Mill
        • Mormon Mill has also been known as:
        • Mormon Colony
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Burnet
          (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Shovel Mountain
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Shovel Mountain is located in Burnet County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shovel Mountain
        • Smithwick
          (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
          • Smithwick is located in Burnet County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithwick
        • Naruna
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
          • Naruna is located in Burnet County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naruna
        • Oatmeal
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Lake Victor
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Lake Victor is located in Burnet County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Victor
        • Spicewood
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Bertram
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Shady Grove
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Shady Grove is located in Burnet County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
        • Sunnylane
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Sunnylane is located in Burnet County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnylane
        • Joppa
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
          • Joppa is located in Burnet County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa
  • Gillespie County
  • Mason County
  • San Saba 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- Gainesville) 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.