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Nearest Communities to Loyal Valley,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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

Loyal Valley is located in Mason County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mason County: Gillespie, Kimble, Llano, McCulloch, Menard & San Saba.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 42 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Loyal Valley. Of these communities, 30 are located in counties other than Mason 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 Loyal Valley (which is Mason 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 Loyal Valley

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

  • Mason County   (where Loyal Valley resides)
  • Blanco County
  • Gillespie County
    • County Seat for Gillespie:   Fredericksburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Loyal Valley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Loyal Valley.
      • Cherry Spring
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cherry Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Spring
        • Cherry Spring is located in Gillespie County
      • Doss
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Hilltop
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hilltop have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
        • Hilltop is located in Gillespie County
      • Crabapple ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crabapple have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crabapple
        • Crabapple is located in Gillespie County
      • Cherry Mountain
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cherry Mountain have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Mountain
        • Cherry Mountain is located in Gillespie County
      • Eckert
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Willow City
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Fredericksburg
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Tivydale
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Harper
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Morris Ranch ‑ Historic
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Rocky Hill
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rocky Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Hill
        • Rocky Hill is located in Gillespie County
      • Cain City
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Blumenthal
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blumenthal have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blumenthal
        • Blumenthal is located in Gillespie County
  • Kimble County
  • Llano County
    • County Seat for Llano:   Llano
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Loyal Valley   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Loyal Valley.
      • Prairie Mountain
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Prairie Mountain have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Mountain
        • Prairie Mountain is located in Llano County
      • Castell
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castell
        • Castell is located in Llano County
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Castell <5>
      • Scotts Crossing
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scotts Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotts Crossing
        • Scotts Crossing is located in Llano County
      • Oxford ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oxford have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
        • Oxford is located in Llano County
      • Field Creek
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Field Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Field Creek
        • Field Creek is located in Llano County
      • Valley Spring
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Llano
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Click ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Click have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Click
        • Click is located in Llano County
      • Gainesville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gainesville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gainesville
        • Gainesville is located in Llano County
      • Baby Head ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Baby Head. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baby Head
        • Baby Head is located in Llano County
        • Google driving directions:
        • From your current location to Baby Head
        • From Loyal Valley to Baby Head
      • Lone Grove
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Stolz
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stolz have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stolz
        • Stolz is located in Llano County
  • Menard County
    • County Seat for Menard:   Menard
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Loyal Valley   ...
      • Erna
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Erna have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erna
        • Erna is located in Menard County
  • San Saba 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Loyal Valley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Loyal Valley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.5758, Longitude: -99.0079    
<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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>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.
<5>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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