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Nearest Communities to Idalou,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast 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 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.<1>

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

Idalou is located in Lubbock County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lubbock County: Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lynn & Terry.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 67 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Idalou. Of these communities, 39 are located in counties other than Lubbock 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 Idalou (which is Lubbock 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 Idalou

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

  • Lubbock County   (where Idalou resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.lubbockcounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Lubbock:   Lubbock
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Idalou   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Idalou.
      • Kitalou
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Liberty
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Liberty is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
      • Roosevelt
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Roosevelt is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roosevelt
      • Acuff
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Acuff is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acuff
      • Canyon
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Heckville ‑ Historic
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Heckville is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heckville
      • Becton
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Buffalo Springs
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Buffalo Springs is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Springs
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 441 people
      • Ransom Canyon
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • New Deal
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • New Deal is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Deal
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 841 people
      • Midway
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Midway is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Burris
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Burris is located in Lubbock County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burris
      • Continue List   (16 more) ...
        • Posey
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Lubbock
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Broadview
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
          • Broadview is located in Lubbock County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadview
        • Slaton
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
        • Doud
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Doud is located in Lubbock County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doud
        • West End Place
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
          • West End Place is located in Lubbock County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West End Place
        • Caldwell
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Caldwell is located in Lubbock County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caldwell
        • Union
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
          • Union is located in Lubbock County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
        • Woodrow
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
          • Woodrow is located in Lubbock County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodrow
        • Carlisle
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
          • Carlisle is located in Lubbock County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlisle
        • Shallowater
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • West Carlisle
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
          • West Carlisle is located in Lubbock County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Carlisle
        • Reese Village
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Reese Village is located in Lubbock County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reese Village
        • Wolfforth
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Hurlwood
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
          • Hurlwood is located in Lubbock County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurlwood
        • Slide
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Crosby County
  • Floyd County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.floyd.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Floyd:   Floydada
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Idalou   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Idalou.
      • Allmon
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Allmon is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allmon
      • McCoy
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • McCoy is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCoy
      • Harmony
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Harmony is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
      • Barwise
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Barwise is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barwise
      • Plains Assembly
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Plains Assembly is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plains Assembly
      • Sandhill
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Sandhill is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandhill
      • Lakeview
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Lakeview is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
      • Floydada
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Garza County
  • Hale County
  • Hockley County
  • Lynn 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 from Point A (ie- Idalou) 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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