Nearest Communities to Punkin Center,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Punkin Center, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Punkin Center:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 starting from Punkin Center.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Punkin Center is located in Hardeman County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hardeman County: Harmon (OK), Jackson (OK), Childress, Cottle, Foard & Wilbarger.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 48 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Punkin Center. Of these communities, 34 are located in counties other than Hardeman 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 Punkin Center (which is Hardeman 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 Punkin Center
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Hardeman County (where Punkin Center resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.hardeman.tx.us/
- County Seat for Hardeman: Quanah
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Punkin Center ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Punkin Center.
- Wheatland
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Wheatland is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatland
- Goodlett
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Acme ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Acme is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acme
- Middleburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Middleburg is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleburg
- Seven L Crossing
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Seven L Crossing is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven L Crossing
- Lazare
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Lazare is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lazare
- Talbert Crossing
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Talbert Crossing is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talbert Crossing
- Quanah
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- North Groesbeck
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- North Groesbeck is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Groesbeck
- Williams
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Williams is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams
- Carnes
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Carnes is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carnes
- Willowview
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Willowview is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willowview
- Medicine Mound ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Medicine Mound is located in Hardeman County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medicine Mound
- Chillicothe
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Childress County
- County Website: https://www.childresstx.us/
- County Seat for Childress: Childress
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Punkin Center ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Punkin Center.
- Kirkland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Childress
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Abington
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Abington is located in Childress County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abington
- Smithdale
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Smithdale is located in Childress County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithdale
- Carey
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Tell
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Cottle County
- County Website: https://www.co.cottle.tx.us/
- County Seat for Cottle: Paducah
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Punkin Center ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Punkin Center.
- Baker
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Baker is located in Cottle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker
- Swearingen
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Swearingen is located in Cottle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swearingen
- Ogden
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Ogden is located in Cottle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogden
- Jacobs ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Jacobs is located in Cottle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacobs
- Dunlap
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Dunlap is located in Cottle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlap
- Hackberry
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Hackberry is located in Cottle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackberry
- Coleyville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Coleyville is located in Cottle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleyville
- Paducah
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Foard County
- County Website: https://www.foardcounty.texas.gov/
- County Seat for Foard: Crowell
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Punkin Center ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Punkin Center.
- Vivian
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Vivian is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vivian
- Margaret
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Margaret is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margaret
- Crowell
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Rayland
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Rayland is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rayland
- Foard City
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Foard City is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foard City
- Thalia
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Thalia is located in Foard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thalia
- Wilbarger County
- County Website: https://www.co.wilbarger.tx.us/
- County Seat for Wilbarger: Vernon
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Punkin Center ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Punkin Center.
- Farmers Valley
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Farmers Valley is located in Wilbarger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmers Valley
- Odell
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Tolbert ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Tolbert is located in Wilbarger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolbert
- White City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- White City is located in Wilbarger County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
- Harmon County
- County Seat for Harmon: Hollis (OK)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Punkin Center ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Punkin Center.
- Louis ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Louis is located in Harmon County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louis
- Gould
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Hollis
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- McQueen
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- McQueen is located in Harmon County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McQueen
- Jackson County
- County Website: http://www.jacksoncountyok.com/
- County Seat for Jackson: Altus (OK)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Punkin Center ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Punkin Center.
- Lincoln
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Lincoln is located in Jackson County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
- Eldorado
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Creata
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Creata is located in Jackson County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creata
- Creta
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Creta is located in Jackson County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creta
- Marty
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Marty is located in Jackson County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marty
- Prairie Hill
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Prairie Hill is located in Jackson County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Hill
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Punkin Center) 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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