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Nearest Communities to Johnstone,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Johnstone.<1>

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

Johnstone is located in Val Verde County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Val Verde County: Crockett, Edwards, Kinney, Sutton & Terrell.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 23 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Johnstone. Of these communities, 10 are located in counties other than Val Verde 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 Johnstone (which is Val Verde 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 Johnstone

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

  • Val Verde County   (where Johnstone resides)
    • County Seat for Val Verde:   Del Rio
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Johnstone   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Johnstone.
      • Val Verde Park
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Val Verde Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Val Verde Park
        • Val Verde Park is located in Val Verde County
        • Val Verde Park has also been known as:
        • Val Verde Park Colonia
      • Del Rio
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Rio Bravo
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rio Bravo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Bravo
        • Rio Bravo is located in Val Verde County
        • Rio Bravo has also been known as:
        • Rio Bravo Colonia
      • Payment Colonia
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Payment Colonia have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Payment Colonia
        • Payment Colonia is located in Val Verde County
      • Cienegas Terrace
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cienegas Terrace have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cienegas Terrace
        • Cienegas Terrace is located in Val Verde County
        • Cienegas Terrace has also been known as:
        • Cienegas Terrace Colonia
      • Lake View Addition
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake View Addition have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View Addition
        • Lake View Addition is located in Val Verde County
        • Lake View Addition has also been known as:
        • Lake View Addition Colonia
      • Lake View
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake View have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View
        • Lake View is located in Val Verde County
      • Amistad Village
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Rough Canyon
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rough Canyon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rough Canyon
        • Rough Canyon is located in Val Verde County
        • Rough Canyon has also been known as:
        • Rough Canyon Colonia
      • Devils Shores
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Devils Shores have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Shores
        • Devils Shores is located in Val Verde County
      • Amistad Acres
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Box Canyon - Amistad
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Canyon - Amistad
        • Box Canyon - Amistad is located in Val Verde County
      • Box Canyon Estates
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Box Canyon Estates have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Canyon Estates
        • Box Canyon Estates is located in Val Verde County
  • Edwards County
  • Kinney County
    • County Seat for Kinney:   Brackettville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Johnstone   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Johnstone.
      • Amanda
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Amanda have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amanda
        • Amanda is located in Kinney County
      • Standart
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Standart. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Standart
        • Standart is located in Kinney County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Standart
        • From Johnstone to Standart
      • Pinto
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pinto have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinto
        • Pinto is located in Kinney County
      • Fort Clark Springs
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Clark Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Clark Springs
        • Fort Clark Springs is located in Kinney County
      • Brackettville
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Alamo Village
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Spofford
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Anacacho
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Anacacho have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anacacho
        • Anacacho is located in Kinney County
  • Uvalde 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Johnstone) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Johnstone. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.3813, Longitude: -100.7590       In this case, the coordinates for Johnstone have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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