Nearest Communities to Hoover,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Hoover, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Hoover:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 starting from Hoover.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Hoover is located in Gray County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gray County: Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Roberts & Wheeler.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 36 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Hoover. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Gray 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 Hoover (which is Gray 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 Hoover
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Gray County (where Hoover resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.gray.tx.us/
- County Seat for Gray: Pampa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hoover ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hoover.
- Heaton
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Heaton is also located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
- Mesilla Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Mesilla Park is also located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesilla Park
- Pampa
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Lefors
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Laketon
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Laketon is also located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laketon
- Bowers City
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Bowers City is also located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowers City
- Wesco
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Wesco is also located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wesco
- Kingsmill Camp
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Kingsmill Camp is also located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsmill Camp
- Kingsmill ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Kingsmill was located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsmill
- Denworth
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Denworth is also located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denworth
- Back
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Back is also located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Back
- Alanreed
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- McLean
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Carson County
- County Website: https://www.co.carson.tx.us/
- County Seat for Carson: Panhandle
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hoover ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hoover.
- Skellytown
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Cargray
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Cargray is located in Carson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cargray
- White Deer
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Cuyler
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cuyler is located in Carson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuyler
- Groom
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Donley County
- County Website: https://www.co.donley.tx.us/
- County Seat for Donley: Clarendon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hoover ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hoover.
- Rockledge
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Rockledge is located in Donley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockledge
- Boydston
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Boydston is located in Donley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boydston
- Jericho
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Jericho is located in Donley County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jericho
- Hemphill County
- County Website: https://www.co.hemphill.tx.us/
- County Seat for Hemphill: Canadian
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hoover ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hoover.
- Mendota ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Mendota was located in Hemphill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendota
- Gageby ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Gageby was located in Hemphill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gageby
- Hutchinson County
- County Website: https://www.co.hutchinson.tx.us/
- County Seat for Hutchinson: Stinnett
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hoover ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hoover.
- Texroy
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Texroy is located in Hutchinson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texroy
- Plemons ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Plemons was located in Hutchinson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plemons
- Phillips
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Phillips is located in Hutchinson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillips
- Borger
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Roberts County
- County Website: https://www.co.roberts.tx.us/
- County Seat for Roberts: Miami
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hoover ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hoover.
- Codman
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Codman is located in Roberts County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Codman
- Wayside
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Wayside is located in Roberts County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayside
- Miami
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Lora
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Lora is located in Roberts County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lora
- Parnell ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Parnell was located in Roberts County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parnell
- Wheeler County
- County Website: https://www.wheelercounty.texas.gov/
- County Seat for Wheeler: Wheeler
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Hoover ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Hoover.
- Mobeetie
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- New Mobeetie
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- New Mobeetie is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Mobeetie
- Bellco
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Bellco is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellco
- Kellerville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Kellerville is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellerville
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- Hoover) 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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