Nearest Communities to Plains,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Plains, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Plains:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 Plains.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Plains is located in Borden County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Borden County: Dawson, Garza, Howard, Lynn, Martin, Mitchell & Scurry.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 43 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Plains. Of these communities, 41 are located in counties other than Borden 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 Plains (which is Borden 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 Plains
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Borden County (where Plains resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.borden.tx.us/
- County Seat for Borden: Gail
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Plains ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Plains.
- Mesquite ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Mesquite is located in Borden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesquite
- Gail
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Dawson County
- County Website: https://www.co.dawson.tx.us/
- County Seat for Dawson: Lamesa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Plains ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Plains.
- O'Donnell
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- O'Donnell is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Donnell
- Population from the 2020 Census: 847 people
- Hindman
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Hindman is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hindman
- Hancock
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Hancock is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Key
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Key is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key
- Arvana
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Arvana is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arvana
- Midway
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Midway is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Los Ybanez
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Los Ybanez is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Ybanez
- Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
- Grandview
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Grandview is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandview
- Lamesa
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Lamesa is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamesa
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,131 people
- Lamesa has also been known as:
- La Mesa
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lamesa <3>
- Punkin Center
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Punkin Center is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Punkin Center
- Fivemile
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Fivemile is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile
- Sparenberg
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Sparenberg is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparenberg
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- Pride
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Pride is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pride
- Tenmile
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Tenmile is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile
- Ackerly
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Mungerville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Mungerville is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mungerville
- Welch
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Friendship
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Friendship is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
- Union
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Union is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Klondike
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Klondike is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klondike
- Garza County
- County Website: https://www.garzacounty.net/
- County Seat for Garza: Post
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Plains ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Plains.
- Graham
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Graham is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
- Close City
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Close City is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Close City
- Close City has also been known as:
- Ragtown
- Post
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Augustus
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Augustus is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Augustus
- Hackberry
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Hackberry is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackberry
- Pleasant Valley
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Pleasant Valley is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
- Justiceburg
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Buenos
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Buenos is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buenos
- Howard County
- Lynn County
- County Website: https://www.co.lynn.tx.us/
- County Seat for Lynn: Tahoka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Plains ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Plains.
- Draw
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Draw is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Draw
- Skeen
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Skeen is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skeen
- Grassland
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Grassland is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassland
- Wells
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Wells is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells
- Tahoka
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- New Lynn ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- New Lynn is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Lynn
- New Moore
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- New Moore is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Moore
- Wilson
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- West Point
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- West Point is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Point
- Wayside ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Wayside is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayside
- Martin County
- County Website: http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
- County Seat for Martin: Stanton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Plains ...
- Flower Grove
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Flower Grove is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Grove
- Scurry County
- County Website: https://www.co.scurry.tx.us/
- County Seat for Scurry: Snyder
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Plains ...
- Fluvanna
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
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- Plains) 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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