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Nearest Communities to Hayford Crossing,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.


Hayford Crossing is located in Throckmorton County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Throckmorton County: Archer, Baylor, Haskell, Knox, Shackelford, Stephens & Young.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hayford Crossing. Of these communities, 25 are located in counties other than Throckmorton 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 Hayford Crossing (which is Throckmorton 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 Hayford Crossing

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

  • Throckmorton County   (where Hayford Crossing resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.throckmortoncounty.org/
    • County Seat for Throckmorton:   Throckmorton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hayford Crossing   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hayford Crossing.
      • Gentry Crossing
        (Less than 2 miles to the east)
        • Gentry Crossing is located in Throckmorton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gentry Crossing
      • Bartholomew Crossing
        (Less than 2 miles to the east)
        • Bartholomew Crossing is located in Throckmorton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bartholomew Crossing
      • Paint Crossing
        (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
        • Paint Crossing is located in Throckmorton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paint Crossing
      • Buzzard Peak Crossing
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
        • Buzzard Peak Crossing is located in Throckmorton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buzzard Peak Crossing
      • Reynolds Crossing
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Reynolds Crossing is located in Throckmorton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynolds Crossing
      • Dug Ford
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Dug Ford is located in Throckmorton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dug Ford
      • M K Crossing
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • M K Crossing is located in Throckmorton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for M K Crossing
      • McKeichan Crossing
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • McKeichan Crossing is located in Throckmorton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKeichan Crossing
      • Coody Crossing
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Coody Crossing is located in Throckmorton County
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      • Throckmorton
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Woodson
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Lusk
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Lusk is located in Throckmorton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lusk
      • Elbert
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Elbert is located in Throckmorton County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbert
  • Baylor County
  • Haskell County
    • County Website:   https://www.haskellcountytx.gov/
    • County Seat for Haskell:   Haskell
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hayford Crossing   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hayford Crossing.
      • Scott Crossing
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Scott Crossing is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Crossing
      • Irby
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Irby is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irby
      • Paint Creek
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Paint Creek is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paint Creek
      • Mattson
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Mattson is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattson
      • Haskell
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Josselet
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Josselet is located in Haskell County
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      • Weinert
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Plainview
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Plainview is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
      • Stamford
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Pinkerton
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Pinkerton is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinkerton
  • Jones County
  • Knox County
  • Shackelford County
    • County Website:   https://www.shackelfordcounty.org/
    • County Seat for Shackelford:   Albany
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hayford Crossing   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hayford Crossing.
      • Fort Griffin
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Fort Griffin is located in Shackelford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Griffin
      • Berryhill
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Berryhill is located in Shackelford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berryhill
      • Albany
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Albany is located in Shackelford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,958 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Albany <3>
      • Acampo
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Acampo is located in Shackelford County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acampo
  • Stephens County
  • Young County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.young.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Young:   Graham
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hayford Crossing   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hayford Crossing.
      • Murray
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Murray is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murray
      • Proffitt
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Proffitt is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proffitt
      • Proffitt Crossing
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Proffitt Crossing is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proffitt Crossing
      • Padgett
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Padgett is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Padgett

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hayford Crossing) 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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