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Nearest Communities to Morton,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

Please note 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.

Morton is located in Cochran County and is the County Seat.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cochran County: Lea (NM), Roosevelt (NM), Bailey, Hockley & Yoakum.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 40 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Morton. Of these communities, 32 are located in counties other than Cochran 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 Morton (which is Cochran 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 Morton

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

  • Cochran County   (where Morton resides)
  • Bailey County
  • Hockley County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.hockley.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Hockley:   Levelland
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Morton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Morton.
      • Pettit
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Pettit is located in Hockley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pettit
      • Pep
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Coble
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Coble is located in Hockley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coble
      • Oklahoma Flat
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Oklahoma Flat is located in Hockley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oklahoma Flat
      • Sundown
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Levelland
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Whitharral
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Opdyke West
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Opdyke West is located in Hockley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opdyke West
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 196 people
      • Clauene
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Clauene is located in Hockley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clauene
      • Opdyke
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Opdyke is located in Hockley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opdyke
  • Lamb County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.lamb.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Lamb:   Littlefield
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Morton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Morton.
      • Beck
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Beck is located in Lamb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beck
      • Friendship
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Friendship is located in Lamb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
      • Lums Chapel
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Lums Chapel is located in Lamb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lums Chapel
      • Littlefield
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Sudan
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Amherst
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Roosevelt County
    • County Website:   https://www.rooseveltcounty.com/
    • County Seat for Roosevelt:   Portales (NM)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Morton   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Morton.
      • Lingo ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Lingo is located in Roosevelt County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lingo
      • Causey
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Bluit ‑ Historic
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Bluit is located in Roosevelt County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluit
      • Inez ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Inez is located in Roosevelt County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inez
      • Garrison ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
        • Garrison is located in Roosevelt County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrison
      • Longs ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Longs is located in Roosevelt County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longs
      • Richland ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Richland is located in Roosevelt County (NM)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Morton) 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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