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Nearest Communities to Hereford,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

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

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

Hereford is located in Deaf Smith County and is the County Seat.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Deaf Smith County: Curry (NM), Quay (NM), Castro, Oldham, Parmer & Randall.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hereford. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Deaf Smith 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 Hereford (which is Deaf Smith 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 Hereford

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

  • Deaf Smith County   (where Hereford resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.deaf-smith.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Deaf Smith:   Hereford
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hereford   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hereford.
      • Joel
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Joel is located in Deaf Smith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joel
      • Westway
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
        • Westway is located in Deaf Smith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westway
      • Milo Center
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Milo Center is located in Deaf Smith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo Center
      • Dawn
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • La Plata ‑ Historic
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Ford
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Ford is located in Deaf Smith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ford
      • Simms
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Simms is located in Deaf Smith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simms
      • Bootleg
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Bootleg is located in Deaf Smith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bootleg
      • Walcott
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Walcott is located in Deaf Smith County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walcott
  • Castro County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.castro.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Castro:   Dimmitt
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hereford   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hereford.
      • Frio
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Frio is located in Castro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frio
      • Summerfield
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Jumbo
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Jumbo is located in Castro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jumbo
      • Easter
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Easter is located in Castro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easter
      • Dimmitt
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Arney
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Arney is located in Castro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arney
      • Tam Anne
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Tam Anne is located in Castro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tam Anne
      • Nazareth
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Mulkey
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Mulkey is located in Castro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mulkey
      • Roy
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Roy is located in Castro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roy
      • Flagg
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Flagg is located in Castro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flagg
      • Big Square
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Big Square is located in Castro County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Square
  • Oldham County
  • Parmer County
    • County Website:   https://parmercounty.texas.gov/
    • County Seat for Parmer:   Farwell
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Hereford   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Hereford.
      • Black
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Black is located in Parmer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black
      • Friona
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Hub
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Hub is located in Parmer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hub
      • Parmerton
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Parmerton is located in Parmer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parmerton
  • Randall 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- Hereford) 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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