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Nearest Communities to Plaska,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Plaska.<1>

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

Plaska is located in Hall County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hall County: Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Donley & Motley.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 38 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Plaska. Of these communities, 25 are located in counties other than Hall 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 Plaska (which is Hall 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 Plaska

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

  • Hall County   (where Plaska resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.hall.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Hall:   Memphis
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plaska   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plaska.
      • Lakeview
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
        • Lakeview is located in Hall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
      • Eli
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
        • Eli is located in Hall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eli
      • Parnell
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Parnell is located in Hall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parnell
      • Weatherly
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Weatherly is located in Hall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weatherly
      • Hulver
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Hulver is located in Hall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hulver
      • Memphis
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Lesley
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Lesley is located in Hall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lesley
      • Newlin
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Newlin is located in Hall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newlin
      • Estelline
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Plains Junction
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Plains Junction is located in Hall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plains Junction
      • Brice
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Brice is located in Hall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brice
      • South Brice
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
        • South Brice is located in Hall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Brice
      • Turkey
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Briscoe County
  • Childress County
    • County Website:   https://www.childresstx.us/
    • County Seat for Childress:   Childress
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plaska   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plaska.
      • Carey
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Tell
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Abington
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Abington is located in Childress County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abington
      • Smithdale
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Smithdale is located in Childress County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithdale
      • Childress
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Loco ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Loco is located in Childress County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loco
  • Collingsworth County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.collingsworth.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Collingsworth:   Wellington
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Plaska   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Plaska.
      • Swearingen
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Swearingen is located in Collingsworth County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swearingen
      • Rolla
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Rolla is located in Collingsworth County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolla
      • Quail
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • New Loco
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • New Loco is located in Collingsworth County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Loco
      • Marilla
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Marilla is located in Collingsworth County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marilla
      • Fresno
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Fresno is located in Collingsworth County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fresno
      • Wellington
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Cottle County
  • Donley County
  • Motley County

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 from Point A (ie- Plaska) 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.