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Nearest Communities to Maxon,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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 Maxon.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Maxon<2> is historic,<3> it would have been located within present day 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 28 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Maxon. Of these communities, 3 are located in counties other than Brewster County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<4> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Maxon (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 Maxon

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

  • Brewster County   (where Maxon resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.brewstercounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Brewster:   Alpine
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Maxon   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Maxon.
      • Tesnus
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Tesnus is also located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tesnus
      • Rosenfeld
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
        • Rosenfeld is also located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosenfeld
      • Haymond
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Haymond is also located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haymond
      • Old Corbett Place
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Old Corbett Place is also located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Corbett Place
      • McFarland Place
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • McFarland Place is also located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McFarland Place
      • Old Edith Lochausen Place
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Matthews Place
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Matthews Place is also located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matthews Place
      • Millers
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Millers is also located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millers
      • Bennett Place ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Bennett Place was located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett Place
      • Stuart Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Stuart Place is also located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stuart Place
      • Old Reed Place
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Old Reed Place is also located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Reed Place
      • Kriebaum Place
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Kriebaum Place is also located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kriebaum Place
      • Continue List   (13 more) ...
        • Warwick
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Warwick is also located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warwick
        • Causey Place
          (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
          • Causey Place is also located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Causey Place
        • Ansley Place
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Ansley Place is also located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ansley Place
        • Shoemaker Place
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Shoemaker Place is also located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoemaker Place
        • Walker Place
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Walker Place is also located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker Place
        • Louis Granger Place
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
          • Louis Granger Place is also located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louis Granger Place
        • Fourmile Crossing
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Fourmile Crossing is also located in Brewster County
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        • Mitchell Place
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Mitchell Place is also located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchell Place
        • Tinaja ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
          • Tinaja was located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinaja
        • Old Beekley Place
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Old Beekley Place is also located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Beekley Place
        • Youngblood Place
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Youngblood Place is also located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngblood Place
        • Marathon
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • San Francisco
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
          • San Francisco is also located in Brewster County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Francisco
  • Pecos County
  • Terrell County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Maxon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>Maxon is also known as Maxon Springs. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Maxon.
<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 Maxon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.