Nearest Communities to Gilpin,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Gilpin, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Gilpin:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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.
Gilpin is located in Dickens County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dickens County: Cottle, Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Kent, King, Motley & Stonewall.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Gilpin. Of these communities, 17 are located in counties other than Dickens 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 Gilpin (which is Dickens 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 Gilpin
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Dickens County (where Gilpin resides)
- County Seat for Dickens: Dickens
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Dickens County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Dickens County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Dickens County
- Nearest Communities to Gilpin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Gilpin.
- Steele Hill
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Steele Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steele Hill
- Steele Hill is located in Dickens County
- Soldiers Mound ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Soldiers Mound have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soldiers Mound
- Soldiers Mound is located in Dickens County
- Spur
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spur
- Spur is located in Dickens County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,167 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spur <4>
- Dickens
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickens
- Dickens is located in Dickens County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 251 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dickens <4>
- Red Mud
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west) - Croton
(18 miles [29 km] to the north) - Elton
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north) - East Afton
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for East Afton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Afton
- East Afton is located in Dickens County
- Afton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Afton
- Afton is located in Dickens County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Afton <4>
- Glenn
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north) - McAdoo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McAdoo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAdoo
- McAdoo is located in Dickens County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McAdoo <4>
- Crosby County
- County Seat for Crosby: Crosbyton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Crosby County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Crosby County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Crosby County
- Nearest Communities to Gilpin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Gilpin.
- Kalgary
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west) - Broadway
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Garza County
- County Seat for Garza: Post
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Garza County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Garza County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Garza County
- Nearest Communities to Gilpin ...
- Kent County
- County Seat for Kent: Jayton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Kent County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Kent County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Kent County
- Nearest Communities to Gilpin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Gilpin.
- Girard
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Girard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girard
- Girard is located in Kent County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Girard <4>
- Jayton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jayton
- Jayton is located in Kent County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 517 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jayton <4>
- Clairemont
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clairemont
- Clairemont is located in Kent County
- Harmony
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south) - Polar
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- King County
- County Seat for King: Guthrie
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- King County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- King County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- King County
- Nearest Communities to Gilpin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Gilpin.
- Corner Windmill
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Corner Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Windmill
- Corner Windmill is located in King County
- Gage Corner Windmill
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gage Corner Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gage Corner Windmill
- Gage Corner Windmill is located in King County
- Guthrie
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Guthrie have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guthrie
- Guthrie is located in King County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Guthrie <4>
- Dumont
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dumont have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dumont
- Dumont is located in King County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dumont <4>
- Stonewall County
- County Seat for Stonewall: Aspermont
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Stonewall County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Stonewall County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Stonewall County
- Nearest Communities to Gilpin ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Gilpin.
- Oriana ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast) - Peacock
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast) - Double Mountain
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Double Mountain. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Mountain
- Double Mountain is located in Stonewall County
- Swenson
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Geneview
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Gilpin) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Gilpin. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.4151, Longitude: -100.7165 In this case, the coordinates for Gilpin 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. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |