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Nearest Communities to Millers,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

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

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

Millers 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 17 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Millers. Of these communities, 3 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 Millers (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 Millers

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

  • Brewster County   (where Millers resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.brewstercounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Brewster:   Alpine
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Millers   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Millers.
      • Stuart Place
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Stuart Place is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stuart Place
      • Tinaja ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Tinaja is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinaja
      • Rosenfeld
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
        • Rosenfeld is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosenfeld
      • Maxon ‑ Historic
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Maxon is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxon
        • Maxon has also been known as:
        • Maxon Springs
      • San Francisco
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • San Francisco is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Francisco
      • Tesnus
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Tesnus is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tesnus
      • Maravillas Crossing
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Maravillas Crossing is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maravillas Crossing
      • Old Corbett Place
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Old Corbett Place is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Corbett Place
      • Haymond
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Haymond is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haymond
      • Corner Windmill
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Corner Windmill is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Windmill
      • Old Edith Lochausen Place
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • McFarland Place
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • McFarland Place is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McFarland Place
      • Old Reed Place
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Old Reed Place is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Reed Place
      • Matthews Place
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Matthews Place is located in Brewster County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matthews Place
  • 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Millers) 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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