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Nearest Communities to Mountain Home,
Listed County-By-County

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

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 from Mountain Home.<1>

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

Mountain Home is located in Kerr County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kerr County: Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kimble & Real.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 24 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Mountain Home. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Kerr 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 Mountain Home (which is Kerr 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 Mountain Home

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

  • Kerr County   (where Mountain Home resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.kerrcountytx.gov/
    • County Seat for Kerr:   Kerrville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mountain Home   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mountain Home.
      • Hunt
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Waltonia
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Waltonia is located in Kerr County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waltonia
      • Ingram
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Stowers Corner Windmill
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Mount Wesley
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Mount Wesley is located in Kerr County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Wesley
      • Kerrville
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Legion
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
        • Legion is located in Kerr County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legion
      • Guadalupe Heights
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Guadalupe Heights is located in Kerr County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guadalupe Heights
      • Junction Windmill
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Junction Windmill is located in Kerr County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junction Windmill
      • Shady Grove
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Shady Grove is located in Kerr County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
      • Camp Verde
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Center Point
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Cypress Creek
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Cypress Creek is located in Kerr County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Creek
  • Bandera County
  • Gillespie County
    • County Website:   https://www.gillespiecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Gillespie:   Fredericksburg
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Mountain Home   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Mountain Home.
      • Harper
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Tivydale
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Tivydale is located in Gillespie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tivydale
      • Morris Ranch ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Morris Ranch is located in Gillespie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morris Ranch
      • Doss
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Hilltop
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Hilltop is located in Gillespie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
      • Cherry Mountain
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Cherry Mountain is located in Gillespie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Mountain
      • Cherry Spring
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Cherry Spring is located in Gillespie County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Spring
  • Kimble County

Footnotes ...

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