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Nearest Communities to Lees,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Lees.<1>

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

Lees is located in Glasscock County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Glasscock County: Howard, Martin, Midland, Reagan, Sterling & Upton.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Lees. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Glasscock 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 Lees (which is Glasscock 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 Lees

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

  • Glasscock County   (where Lees resides)
  • Howard County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.howard.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Howard:   Big Spring
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lees   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lees.
      • Elbow
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Elbow is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbow
      • Forsan
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • South Haven
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • South Haven is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
      • Webb Village
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Webb Village is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
      • Lomax
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Lomax is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lomax
      • Ross City ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Ross City is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross City
      • Big Spring
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Morita
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Morita is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morita
      • Otis Chalk ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Otis Chalk is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis Chalk
      • Ziler
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
        • Ziler is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ziler
      • Midway
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Midway is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Sand Springs
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Sand Springs is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Coahoma
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
        • Fairview
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
          • Fairview is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
        • Knott
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
        • Luther
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Luther is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
  • Martin County
    • County Website:   http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Martin:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lees   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lees.
      • Stanton
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Dix
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Dix is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dix
      • Courtney
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Courtney is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courtney
      • Lenorah
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Brown
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Brown is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
      • Merrick
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Merrick is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrick
      • Grady
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Grady is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
  • Midland County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.midland.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Midland:   Midland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Lees   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Lees.
      • Spraberry
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Spraberry is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spraberry
      • Greenwood
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Greenwood is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
      • Germania
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
        • Germania is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germania
  • Mitchell County
  • Sterling 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- Lees) 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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