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Nearest Communities to Ogden,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 Ogden.<1>

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

Ogden is located in Baylor County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Baylor County: Archer, Foard, Haskell, Knox, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger & Young.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ogden. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Baylor 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 Ogden (which is Baylor 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 Ogden

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

  • Baylor County   (where Ogden resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.baylor.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Baylor:   Seymour
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ogden   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ogden.
      • Lively
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Lively is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lively
      • Seymour
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Round Timber ‑ Historic
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Round Timber is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Timber
      • Westover
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Westover is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westover
      • Mabelle
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
        • Mabelle is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mabelle
      • Bomarton
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Bomarton is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomarton
      • Red Springs
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Red Springs is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Springs
      • Fulda
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Fulda is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fulda
  • Archer County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.archer.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Archer:   Archer City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ogden   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ogden.
      • Megargel
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Dundee
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Dundee is located in Archer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundee
      • Black Flat
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Black Flat is located in Archer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Flat
      • Mankins
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Mankins is located in Archer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mankins
  • Haskell County
  • Knox County
    • County Website:   https://www.knoxcountytexas.org/
    • County Seat for Knox:   Benjamin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ogden   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ogden.
      • Goree
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Hefner
        (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
        • Hefner is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hefner
      • Vera
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Vera is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vera
      • Munday
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Rhineland
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Rhineland is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhineland
      • Sunset
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Sunset is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset
  • Throckmorton County
  • Wilbarger County
  • Young County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.young.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Young:   Graham
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ogden   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ogden.
      • Padgett
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Padgett is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Padgett
      • Proffitt Crossing
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Proffitt Crossing is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proffitt Crossing
      • Olney
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Proffitt
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Proffitt is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proffitt

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- Ogden) 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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