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Nearest Communities to Ross City,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast 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 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.

Keep in mind 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Ross City is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Howard County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Howard County: Borden, Dawson, Glasscock, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Scurry & Sterling.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ross City. Of these communities, 13 are located in counties other than Howard County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Ross City (which is Howard 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 Ross City

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

  • Howard County   (where Ross City resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.howard.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Howard:   Big Spring
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ross City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ross City.
      • Otis Chalk ‑ Historic
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Otis Chalk is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis Chalk
      • Forsan
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • South Haven
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • South Haven is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
      • Midway
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Midway is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Elbow
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Elbow is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbow
      • Coahoma
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Sand Springs
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Sand Springs is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
      • Ziler
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Ziler is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ziler
      • Big Spring
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Webb Village
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Webb Village is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
      • Lomax
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Lomax is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lomax
      • Morita
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
        • Morita is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morita
      • Continue List   (4 more) ...
        • Fairview
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
          • Fairview is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
        • Luther
          (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
          • Luther is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
        • Vincent
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
          • Vincent is located in Howard County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
        • Knott
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Glasscock County
  • Martin County
  • Mitchell County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.mitchell.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Mitchell:   Colorado City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Ross City   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Ross City.
      • Hyman
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
        • Hyman is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyman
      • Iatan
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Iatan is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iatan
      • Spade
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Spade is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spade
      • Westbrook
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Lowe
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Lowe is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowe
      • Pecan Crossing
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Pecan Crossing is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecan Crossing
  • Sterling 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- Ross City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Ross City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.