Nearest Communities to La Parra Landing,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to La Parra Landing, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for La Parra Landing:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from La Parra Landing.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
La Parra Landing is located in Kenedy County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kenedy County: Brooks, Hidalgo, Kleberg & Willacy.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of La Parra Landing. Of these communities, 24 are located in counties other than Kenedy 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 La Parra Landing (which is Kenedy 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 La Parra Landing
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Kenedy County (where La Parra Landing resides)
- County Website: https://www.kenedycountytx.gov/
- County Seat for Kenedy: Sarita
- Note: The Gulf of Mexico lies to the east
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to La Parra Landing ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from La Parra Landing.
- Sarita
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Yarborough
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Yarborough is located in Kenedy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yarborough
- Turcotte
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Turcotte is located in Kenedy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turcotte
- Armstrong
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Armstrong is located in Kenedy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong
- Brooks County
- County Website: https://www.co.brooks.tx.us/
- County Seat for Brooks: Falfurrias
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to La Parra Landing ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from La Parra Landing.
- Flowella
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Flowella is located in Brooks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flowella
- Airport Road Addition
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Papalote del Norte
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Papalote del Norte is located in Brooks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote del Norte
- Rush Addition
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Rush Addition is located in Brooks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rush Addition
- Rush Addition has also been known as:
- Rush Addition Colonia
- Alto Colorado
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Alto Colorado is located in Brooks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto Colorado
- La India
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- La India is located in Brooks County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La India
- Jim Wells County
- County Website: https://www.co.jim-wells.tx.us/
- County Seat for Jim Wells: Alice
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to La Parra Landing ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from La Parra Landing.
- La Gloria
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- La Gloria is located in Jim Wells County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Gloria
- Premont
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Kleberg County
- County Website: https://www.co.kleberg.tx.us/
- County Seat for Kleberg: Kingsville
- Note: The Gulf of Mexico lies to the east
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to La Parra Landing ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from La Parra Landing.
- Riviera Beach
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Riviera Beach is located in Kleberg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riviera Beach
- Loyola Beach
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Loyola Beach is located in Kleberg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyola Beach
- Vattman
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Vattman is located in Kleberg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vattman
- Vattmannville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Vattmannville is located in Kleberg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vattmannville
- Riviera
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- El Martillo
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- El Martillo is located in Kleberg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Martillo
- Ricardo
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Ricardo is located in Kleberg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ricardo
- Ojo de Angua
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Ojo de Angua is located in Kleberg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ojo de Angua
- Kingsville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Nueces County
- County Website: https://www.nuecesco.com/
- County Seat for Nueces: Corpus Christi
- Note: The Gulf of Mexico lies to the east
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to La Parra Landing ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from La Parra Landing.
- Concordia
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Concordia is located in Nueces County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concordia
- Bishop
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Chapman Ranch
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Petronila
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Petronila is located in Nueces County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petronila
- Population from the 2020 Census: 112 people
- Driscoll
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Palo Alto
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Palo Alto is located in Nueces County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palo Alto
- Tierra Grande
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Tierra Grande is located in Nueces County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tierra Grande
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- La Parra Landing) 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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