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Nearest Communities to Loma Alta,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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 from Loma Alta.<1>

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

Loma Alta 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 9 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Loma Alta. Of these communities, 2 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 Loma Alta (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 Loma Alta

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

  • Val Verde County   (where Loma Alta resides)
    • County Seat for Val Verde:   Del Rio
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Loma Alta   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Loma Alta.
      • Vinegarone
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vinegarone have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinegarone
        • Vinegarone is located in Val Verde County
      • Corner Windmill
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Corner Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Windmill
        • Corner Windmill is located in Val Verde County
      • Devils Shores
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • 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
      • Bakers Crossing
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bakers Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bakers Crossing
        • Bakers Crossing is located in Val Verde County
      • Juno
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Juno have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juno
        • Juno is located in Val Verde County
      • Rough Canyon
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • 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
      • Comstock
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Edwards 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- Loma Alta) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Loma Alta. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.9180, Longitude: -100.7745       In this case, the coordinates for Loma Alta 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.




 

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