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Nearest Communities to Plainview,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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 Plainview.<1>

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

Plainview is located in Hale County and is the County Seat.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hale County: Castro, Crosby, Floyd, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock & Swisher.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 59 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Plainview. Of these communities, 39 are located in counties other than Hale 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 Plainview (which is Hale 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 Plainview

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

  • Hale County   (where Plainview resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.halecounty.org/
    • County Seat for Hale:   Plainview
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plainview.
      • Seth Ward
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Wasson
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Wasson is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasson
      • Furguson
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
        • Furguson is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furguson
      • Lider
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • Lider is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lider
      • Finney
        (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
        • Finney is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finney
      • Snyder
        (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
        • Snyder is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snyder
      • Boone
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Boone is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boone
      • Wright
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Wright is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright
      • Six Point
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Six Point is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Six Point
      • Hale City ‑ Historic
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Hale City is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale City
      • Edmonson
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Happy Union
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Happy Union is located in Hale County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Union
      • Continue List   (8 more) ...
  • Briscoe County
  • Castro County
  • Floyd County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.floyd.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Floyd:   Floydada
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plainview   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plainview.
      • Aiken
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Cereal
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Cereal is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cereal
      • Providence
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Providence is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Providence
      • Crume Gin
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Crume Gin is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crume Gin
      • Lockney
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Barwise
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Barwise is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barwise
      • Lone Star
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Lone Star is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Star
      • Sterley ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
        • Sterley is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterley
      • Sandhill
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Sandhill is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandhill
      • Harmony
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Harmony is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
      • Muncy
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Muncy is located in Floyd County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muncy
      • South Plains
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (7 more) ...
        • Della Plain ‑ Historic
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
        • Allmon
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
          • Allmon is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allmon
        • Floydada
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • McCoy
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
          • McCoy is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCoy
        • Cedar Hill
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Cedar Hill is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Hill
        • Johnfarris
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
          • Johnfarris is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnfarris
        • Plains Assembly
          (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
          • Plains Assembly is located in Floyd County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plains Assembly
  • Lamb County
  • Lubbock County
  • Swisher County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Plainview) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.