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Nearest Communities to Loy Place,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

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

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

Loy Place is located in Brewster County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Brewster County: Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio & Terrell.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 8 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Loy Place. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Brewster 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 Loy Place (which is Brewster 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 Loy Place

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

  • Brewster County   (where Loy Place resides)
  • Presidio County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.presidio.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Presidio:   Marfa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Loy Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Loy Place.
      • Plata ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
        • Plata is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plata
      • Casa Piedra ‑ Historic
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Casa Piedra is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa Piedra
      • Papalote Seco
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Papalote Seco is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Seco
      • Papalote Colorado
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Papalote Colorado is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Colorado
      • Papalote Escondido
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Papalote Escondido is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Escondido
      • Papalote Llano
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Papalote Llano is located in Presidio County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Llano

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Loy Place) 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.