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Nearest Communities to Morita,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Morita is located in Howard County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Howard County: Borden, Dawson, Glasscock, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Scurry & Sterling.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 40 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Morita. Of these communities, 24 are located in counties other than Howard 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 Morita (which is Howard 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 Morita

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

  • Howard County   (where Morita resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.howard.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Howard:   Big Spring
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Morita   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Morita.
      • Lomax
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Lomax is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lomax
      • Elbow
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
        • Elbow is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbow
      • South Haven
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • South Haven is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
      • Webb Village
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
        • Webb Village is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
      • Big Spring
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Fairview
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Fairview is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Ziler
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Ziler is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ziler
      • Knott
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Forsan
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Midway
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Midway is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Sand Springs
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Sand Springs is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
      • Coahoma
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Ross City ‑ Historic
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
          • Ross City is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross City
        • Luther
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
          • Luther is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
        • Otis Chalk ‑ Historic
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
          • Otis Chalk is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis Chalk
        • Vealmoor
          (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
  • Dawson County
  • Glasscock County
  • Martin County
    • County Website:   http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Martin:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Morita   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Morita.
      • Stanton
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Dix
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Dix is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dix
      • Lenorah
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Courtney
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Courtney is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courtney
      • Brown
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Brown is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
      • Merrick
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Merrick is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrick
      • Grady
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Grady is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
      • Tarzan
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Flower Grove
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Flower Grove is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Grove
      • Three Leagues
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Three Leagues is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Leagues
  • Midland County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.midland.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Midland:   Midland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Morita   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Morita.
      • Germania
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Germania is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germania
      • Greenwood
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Greenwood is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
      • Spraberry
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Spraberry is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spraberry
      • Chub
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Chub is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chub
      • Midland
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Ridgeheights
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Ridgeheights is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeheights
      • Cotton Flat
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Cotton Flat is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Flat
      • Sandy Acres
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Sandy Acres is located in Midland County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Acres
  • Mitchell 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Morita) 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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