Nearest Communities to Merrick,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Merrick, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Merrick:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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.
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 south 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 from Merrick.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Merrick is located in Martin County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Martin County: Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Glasscock, Howard & Midland.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 45 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Merrick. Of these communities, 36 are located in counties other than Martin 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 Merrick (which is Martin 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 Merrick
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Martin County (where Merrick resides)
- County Website: http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
- County Seat for Martin: Stanton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merrick ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merrick.
- Lenorah
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Brown
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Brown is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
- Grady
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Grady is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
- Flower Grove
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Flower Grove is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Grove
- Tarzan
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Three Leagues
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Three Leagues is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Leagues
- Courtney
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Courtney is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courtney
- Stanton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Dix
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Dix is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dix
- Andrews County
- County Website: https://www.co.andrews.tx.us/
- County Seat for Andrews: Andrews
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merrick ...
- Sixteen Corner Windmill
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Dawson County
- County Website: https://www.co.dawson.tx.us/
- County Seat for Dawson: Lamesa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merrick ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merrick.
- Ackerly
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Sparenberg
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Sparenberg is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparenberg
- Klondike
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Klondike is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klondike
- Tenmile
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Tenmile is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile
- Patricia
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Patricia is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patricia
- Fivemile
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Fivemile is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile
- Friendship
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Friendship is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
- Midway
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Midway is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Key
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Key is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key
- Los Ybanez
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Los Ybanez is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Ybanez
- Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
- Union
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Union is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Lamesa
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Lamesa is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamesa
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,131 people
- Lamesa has also been known as:
- La Mesa
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lamesa <3>
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- Arvana
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Arvana is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arvana
- Sand
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sand is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand
- Hancock
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Hancock is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Mungerville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Mungerville is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mungerville
- Glasscock County
- County Website: https://www.co.glasscock.tx.us/
- County Seat for Glasscock: Garden City
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merrick ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merrick.
- Old Houston Place
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Old Houston Place is located in Glasscock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Houston Place
- Lees
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lees is located in Glasscock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lees
- Howard County
- County Website: https://www.co.howard.tx.us/
- County Seat for Howard: Big Spring
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merrick ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merrick.
- Knott
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Fairview
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Fairview is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Vealmoor
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Morita
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Morita is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morita
- Lomax
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Lomax is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lomax
- Luther
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Luther is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
- Webb Village
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Webb Village is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
- Big Spring
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Elbow
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Elbow is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbow
- South Haven
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- South Haven is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
- Ziler
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Ziler is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ziler
- Midway
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Midway is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Sand Springs
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Sand Springs is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
- Midland County
- County Website: https://www.co.midland.tx.us/
- County Seat for Midland: Midland
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Merrick ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Merrick.
- Germania
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Germania is located in Midland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germania
- Greenwood
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Greenwood is located in Midland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
- Chub
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Chub is located in Midland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chub
- Midland
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
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- Merrick) 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. |
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