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Nearest Communities to Rotan,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

Rotan is located in Fisher County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Fisher County: Jones, Kent, Mitchell, Nolan, Scurry, Stonewall & Taylor.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 57 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rotan. Of these communities, 34 are located in counties other than Fisher 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 Rotan (which is Fisher 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 Rotan

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

  • Fisher County   (where Rotan resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.fishercounty.org/
    • County Seat for Fisher:   Roby
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rotan   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rotan.
      • Cross Roads
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Cross Roads is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Roads
      • Fisher
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Fisher is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
      • North Roby
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • North Roby is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Roby
      • Sardis
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
        • Sardis is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sardis
      • Center
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
        • Center is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center
      • Roby
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Scotts Corner
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Scotts Corner is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotts Corner
      • Royston
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Hobbs
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Pledger
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Pledger is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pledger
      • Reynolds
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
        • Reynolds is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynolds
      • Hitson
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Hitson is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitson
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • McCaulley
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
          • McCaulley is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCaulley
        • Longworth
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
          • Longworth is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longworth
        • Sylvester
          (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Busby
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
          • Busby is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Busby
        • Capitola
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Claytonville
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
        • Hamlin
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • Gannon
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
          • Gannon is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gannon
        • Palava
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
          • Palava is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palava
        • Bernecker
          (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
          • Bernecker is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernecker
        • Eskota
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
          • Eskota is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eskota
  • Jones County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.jones.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Jones:   Anson
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rotan   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rotan.
      • Neinda
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
        • Neinda is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neinda
      • Pastura
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
        • Pastura is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pastura
      • Radium
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Plainview
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Plainview is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
      • Noodle
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Noodle is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noodle
      • Tuxedo
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Kent County
  • Mitchell County
  • Nolan County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.nolan.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Nolan:   Sweetwater
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rotan   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rotan.
      • Orient
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Orient is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orient
      • Sweetwater
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Wastella ‑ Historic
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Wastella is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wastella
      • Avenger Village
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Avenger Village is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avenger Village
      • Tesco
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Tesco is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tesco
      • Roscoe
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Herndon
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Herndon is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herndon
  • Scurry County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.scurry.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Scurry:   Snyder
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rotan   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rotan.
      • Hudd
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
        • Hudd is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hudd
      • Camp Springs
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Camp Springs is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Springs
      • Midway
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Midway is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Hermleigh
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Inadale
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Inadale is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inadale
      • Snyder
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Brand
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
        • Brand is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brand
      • China Grove
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • China Grove is located in Scurry County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Grove
  • Stonewall 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- Rotan) 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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