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Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Longworth (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Longworth. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of 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 included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Longworth is located in Fisher County.

To see how the shape of Texas' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Fisher County: Jones, Kent, Mitchell, Nolan, Scurry, Stonewall & Taylor.

Below are the counties that are near Longworth. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Longworth:

  • Fisher County     (The home county of Longworth)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Longworth, with the one closest to Longworth listed first.
    • Roby
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Sylvester
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Capitola
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Capitola is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitola
    • Claytonville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Claytonville is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claytonville
    • Royston
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Royston is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royston
    • McCaulley
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • McCaulley is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCaulley
    • Rotan
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Hobbs
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Hobbs is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobbs
    • Hamlin
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jones County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Longworth, with the one closest to Longworth listed first.
    • Radium
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Radium is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radium
    • Stith
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Stith is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stith
    • Anson
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Tuxedo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Tuxedo is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuxedo
  • Mitchell County
    • Loraine
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Nolan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Longworth, with the one closest to Longworth listed first.
    • Sweetwater
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Avenger Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Avenger Village is located in Nolan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avenger Village
    • Roscoe
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Wastella ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Wastella is located in Nolan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wastella
    • Nolan
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Maryneal
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Scurry County
  • Stonewall County
    • Flat Top
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Flat Top is located in Stonewall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Top
  • Taylor County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Longworth, with the one closest to Longworth listed first.
    • Trent
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Merkel
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Mount Pleasant
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Mount Pleasant is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Longworth, see our County-by-County Page for Longworth.

Cemeteries Near Longworth ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Longworth.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Longworth - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Longworth covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Longworth, with the one closest to Longworth listed first.

  • Palava Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Sylvester Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Roby Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Fisher Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Garden of memories Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Sardis Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Sweetwater Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Claytonville Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Round Mountain Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Coffee Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Rotan Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Roscoe Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roscoe Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Roscoe Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Roscoe.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #6455 <2>
  • Continue List   (32 more) ...
    • Hobbs Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Trent Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Mt. Zion Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>

While we didn't find Longworth in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Longworth.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Longworth, with the one closest to Longworth listed first.

  • Roby
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Claytonville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Claytonville is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claytonville
  • Fisher
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Fisher is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
  • Eskota
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Eskota is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eskota
  • Sweetwater
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Hobbs
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hobbs is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobbs
  • Trent
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Neinda
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Neinda is located in Jones County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neinda
  • Roscoe
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Hitson
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Hitson is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitson
  • Merkel
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Loraine
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Anson
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Longworth. See our List of 1890's Communities around Longworth.

Newspapers Published in Longworth ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Longworth.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Longworth, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Longworth.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Longworth:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<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 Longworth, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Longworth) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.