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Nearest Communities to Jacobs,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 Jacobs.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Jacobs<2> is historic,<3> it would have been located within present day Cottle County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cottle County: Childress, Dickens, Foard, Hall, Hardeman, King & Motley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 35 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Jacobs. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Cottle County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<4> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Jacobs (which is Cottle 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 Jacobs

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

  • Cottle County   (where Jacobs resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.cottle.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Cottle:   Paducah
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Jacobs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Jacobs.
      • Ogden
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Ogden is located in Cottle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogden
      • Swearingen
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Swearingen is located in Cottle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swearingen
      • Dunlap
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Dunlap is located in Cottle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlap
      • Paducah
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Baker
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Baker is located in Cottle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker
      • Hackberry
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Hackberry is located in Cottle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackberry
      • Valley View
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Valley View is located in Cottle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley View
      • Ginsite
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Ginsite is located in Cottle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ginsite
      • Chalk
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Coleyville
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Coleyville is located in Cottle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleyville
      • Sneedville
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Sneedville is located in Cottle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sneedville
      • Narcisso
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • Narcisso is located in Cottle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narcisso
      • Cee Vee
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Delwin
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Delwin is located in Cottle County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delwin
  • Childress County
  • Foard County
  • Hardeman County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.hardeman.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Hardeman:   Quanah
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Jacobs   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Jacobs.
      • Lazare
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Lazare is located in Hardeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lazare
      • Seven L Crossing
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Seven L Crossing is located in Hardeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven L Crossing
      • Punkin Center
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Punkin Center is located in Hardeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Punkin Center
      • Wheatland
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Wheatland is located in Hardeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatland
      • Goodlett
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Middleburg
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Middleburg is located in Hardeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleburg
      • Acme ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Acme is located in Hardeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acme
      • Quanah
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Talbert Crossing
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Talbert Crossing is located in Hardeman County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talbert Crossing
  • King County
  • Motley County

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 from Point A (ie- Jacobs) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Jacobs may originally have been Jacob's.. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Jacobs.
<3>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Jacobs, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.