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Nearest Communities to Hale Center,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Hale Center.<1>

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

Hale Center is located in Hale County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hale County: Castro, Crosby, Floyd, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock & Swisher.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 64 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hale Center. Of these communities, 44 are located in counties other than Hale 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 Hale Center (which is Hale 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 Hale Center

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

  • Hale County   (where Hale Center resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.halecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Hale:   Plainview
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hale Center   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hale Center.
      • Hale City ‑ Historic
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Hale City is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale City
      • Six Point
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Six Point is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Six Point
      • Underwood
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Underwood is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Underwood
      • Furguson
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Furguson is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furguson
      • Snyder
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Snyder is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snyder
      • Mayfield
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Mayfield is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayfield
      • Happy Union
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Happy Union is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Union
      • Cotton Center
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Halfway
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Halfway is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway
      • Plainview
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Wasson
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Wasson is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasson
      • Ellen
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Ellen is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellen
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
        • Boone
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
          • Boone is located in Hale County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boone
        • Wright
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
          • Wright is located in Hale County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright
        • Seth Ward
          (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Lider
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
          • Lider is located in Hale County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lider
        • Edmonson
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Finney
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
          • Finney is located in Hale County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finney
        • Abernathy
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Petersburg
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Castro County
  • Crosby County
  • Floyd County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.floyd.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Floyd:   Floydada
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hale Center   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hale Center.
      • Barwise
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Barwise is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barwise
      • Aiken
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Harmony
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Harmony is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
      • Cereal
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Cereal is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cereal
      • Sandhill
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Sandhill is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandhill
      • Providence
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Providence is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Providence
      • Allmon
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Allmon is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allmon
      • Lockney
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Crume Gin
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Crume Gin is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crume Gin
      • Continue List   (6 more) ...
        • Muncy
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
          • Muncy is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muncy
        • McCoy
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • McCoy is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCoy
        • Sterley ‑ Historic
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
          • Sterley is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterley
        • Lone Star
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
          • Lone Star is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Star
        • Della Plain ‑ Historic
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Floydada
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Hockley County
  • Lamb County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.lamb.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Lamb:   Littlefield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hale Center   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hale Center.
      • Corry
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Corry is located in Lamb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corry
      • Hart Camp ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Hart Camp is located in Lamb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart Camp
      • Olton
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Spade
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Fieldton
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Circle
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Circle is located in Lamb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Circle
      • Bainer
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Bainer is located in Lamb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bainer
      • Cofferville
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Cofferville is located in Lamb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cofferville
      • Springlake
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Littlefield
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Lubbock County
  • Swisher County

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- Hale Center) 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.