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Nearest Communities to Rio Bravo,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

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.


Rio Bravo is located in Val Verde County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Val Verde County: Crockett, Edwards, Kinney, Sutton & Terrell.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 20 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rio Bravo. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Val Verde 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 Rio Bravo (which is Val Verde 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 Rio Bravo

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

  • Val Verde County   (where Rio Bravo resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.valverdecounty.texas.gov/
    • County Seat for Val Verde:   Del Rio
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rio Bravo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rio Bravo.
      • Del Rio
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Payment Colonia
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Payment Colonia is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Payment Colonia
      • Cienegas Terrace
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Cienegas Terrace is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cienegas Terrace
        • Cienegas Terrace has also been known as:
        • Cienegas Terrace Colonia
      • Val Verde Park
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
        • Val Verde Park is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Val Verde Park
        • Val Verde Park has also been known as:
        • Val Verde Park Colonia
      • Lake View Addition
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Lake View Addition is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View Addition
        • Lake View Addition has also been known as:
        • Lake View Addition Colonia
      • Lake View
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Lake View is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View
      • Johnstone
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Johnstone is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstone
      • Amistad Village
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Amistad Village is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amistad Village
      • Rough Canyon
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Rough Canyon is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rough Canyon
        • Rough Canyon has also been known as:
        • Rough Canyon Colonia
      • Devils Shores
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Devils Shores is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Shores
      • Amistad Acres
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
        • Amistad Acres is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amistad Acres
        • Amistad Acres has also been known as:
        • Amistad
      • Box Canyon - Amistad
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Box Canyon - Amistad is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Canyon - Amistad
      • Box Canyon Estates
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Box Canyon Estates is located in Val Verde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Canyon Estates
      • Comstock
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Kinney County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.kinney.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Kinney:   Brackettville
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rio Bravo   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rio Bravo.
      • Amanda
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Amanda is located in Kinney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amanda
      • Standart
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
        • Standart is located in Kinney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Standart
      • Pinto
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Pinto is located in Kinney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinto
      • Brackettville
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Fort Clark Springs
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Fort Clark Springs is located in Kinney County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Clark Springs
  • Uvalde County

Footnotes ...

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