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Nearest Communities to Potosi,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.<1>

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

Potosi is located in Taylor County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Taylor County: Callahan, Coleman, Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Runnels & Shackelford.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 54 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Potosi. Of these communities, 32 are located in counties other than Taylor 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 Potosi (which is Taylor 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 Potosi

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

  • Taylor County   (where Potosi resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.taylorcounty.texas.gov/
    • County Seat for Taylor:   Abilene
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Potosi   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Potosi.
      • Elmdale
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
        • Elmdale is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmdale
      • Wylie
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Wylie is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wylie
      • Abilene
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Rogers
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
        • Rogers is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogers
      • Buffalo Gap
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Tuscola
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Caps
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Caps is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caps
      • Impact
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Impact is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Impact
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
      • Hamby
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Ovalo
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • View
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • View is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for View
      • Tye
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Tye is located in Taylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tye
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tye <3>
      • Continue List   (10 more) ...
        • Lawn
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Guion
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
          • Guion is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guion
        • Cozart
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
          • Cozart is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cozart
        • Mount Pleasant
          (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
          • Mount Pleasant is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
        • Bradshaw
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
          • Bradshaw is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradshaw
        • Merkel
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Blair
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
          • Blair is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair
        • Happy Valley
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Happy Valley is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Valley
        • Shep
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
          • Shep is located in Taylor County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shep
        • Trent
          (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Callahan County
  • Coleman County
  • Jones County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.jones.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Jones:   Anson
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Potosi   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Potosi.
      • North Abilene
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
        • North Abilene is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Abilene
      • Fort Phantom Hill ‑ Historic
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Fort Phantom Hill is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Phantom Hill
      • Phantom Hill
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Phantom Hill is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phantom Hill
      • Hawley
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Hodges
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Hodges is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodges
      • Stith
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Nugent
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
        • Nugent is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nugent
      • Truby
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Truby is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truby
      • Noodle
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Noodle is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noodle
      • Funston
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Nolan County
  • Runnels County
    • County Website:   https://www.runnelscounty.org/
    • County Seat for Runnels:   Ballinger
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Potosi   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Potosi.
      • Drasco
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Drasco is located in Runnels County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drasco
      • Crews
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Crews is located in Runnels County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crews
      • Pumphrey
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Pumphrey is located in Runnels County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumphrey
  • Shackelford County

Footnotes ...

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