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Nearest Communities to Grassland,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 starting from Grassland.<1>

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

Grassland is located in Lynn County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lynn County: Borden, Crosby, Dawson, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock & Terry.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 43 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Grassland. Of these communities, 31 are located in counties other than Lynn 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 Grassland (which is Lynn 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 Grassland

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

  • Lynn County   (where Grassland resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.lynn.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Lynn:   Tahoka
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Grassland   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Grassland.
      • New Lynn ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • New Lynn is located in Lynn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Lynn
      • Draw
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Tahoka
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Skeen
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Skeen is located in Lynn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skeen
      • Wilson
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Wayside ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Wayside is located in Lynn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayside
      • Wells
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Wells is located in Lynn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells
      • New Home
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Petty
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Petty is located in Lynn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petty
      • New Moore
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • New Moore is located in Lynn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Moore
      • West Point
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • West Point is located in Lynn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Point
      • Lakeview
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Lakeview is located in Lynn County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
  • Borden County
  • Crosby County
  • Dawson County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.dawson.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Lamesa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Grassland   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Grassland.
      • O'Donnell
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • O'Donnell is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Donnell
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 847 people
      • Hindman
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
        • Hindman is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hindman
      • Hancock
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Hancock is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
      • Grandview
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Grandview is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandview
      • Arvana
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Arvana is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arvana
      • Key
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Key is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key
  • Garza County
  • Lubbock County
    • County Website:   https://www.lubbockcounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Lubbock:   Lubbock
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Grassland   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Grassland.
      • Slaton
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Union
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Union is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
      • Posey
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Woodrow
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Woodrow is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodrow
      • Midway
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Midway is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Ransom Canyon
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Slide
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Buffalo Springs
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Buffalo Springs is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Springs
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 441 people
      • Burris
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
        • Burris is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burris

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Grassland) 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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