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 northwest 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 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 west 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 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)
- County Seat for Brewster: Alpine
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Brewster County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Brewster County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Brewster County
- Nearest Communities to Loy Place ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Loy Place.
- Sid Place
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north) - Tres Papalotes
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tres Papalotes have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tres Papalotes
- Tres Papalotes is located in Brewster County
- Presidio County
- County Seat for Presidio: Marfa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Presidio County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Presidio County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Presidio County
- 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) - Casa Piedra ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Casa Piedra have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa Piedra
- Casa Piedra is located in Presidio County
- Papalote Seco
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Papalote Seco have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Seco
- Papalote Seco is located in Presidio County
- Papalote Colorado
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Papalote Colorado have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Colorado
- Papalote Colorado is located in Presidio County
- Papalote Escondido
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Papalote Escondido have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Escondido
- Papalote Escondido is located in Presidio County
- Papalote Llano
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Papalote Llano have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Llano
- Papalote Llano is located in Presidio 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Loy Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Loy Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.7932, Longitude: -103.6668 In this case, the coordinates for Loy Place 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. |