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Nearest Communities to Royston,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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.

Royston 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 67 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Royston. Of these communities, 44 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 Royston (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 Royston

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

  • Fisher County   (where Royston resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.fishercounty.org/
    • County Seat for Fisher:   Roby
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Royston   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Royston.
      • Pledger
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
        • Pledger is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pledger
      • Reynolds
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Reynolds is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynolds
      • McCaulley
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
        • McCaulley is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCaulley
      • Fisher
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
        • Fisher is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
      • North Roby
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
        • North Roby is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Roby
      • Sylvester
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Roby
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Hitson
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Hitson is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitson
      • Rotan
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Center
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Center is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center
      • Hamlin
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Longworth
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
        • Longworth is located in Fisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longworth
      • Continue List   (11 more) ...
        • Cross Roads
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
          • Cross Roads is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Roads
        • Sardis
          (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
          • Sardis is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sardis
        • Busby
          (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
          • Busby is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Busby
        • Palava
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
          • Palava is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palava
        • Capitola
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Hobbs
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Scotts Corner
          (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
          • Scotts Corner is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotts Corner
        • Claytonville
          (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Eskota
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
          • Eskota is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eskota
        • Gannon
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
          • Gannon is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gannon
        • Bernecker
          (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
          • Bernecker is located in Fisher County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernecker
  • Haskell County
  • Jones County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.jones.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Jones:   Anson
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Royston   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Royston.
      • Neinda
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
        • Neinda is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neinda
      • Radium
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Pastura
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Pastura is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pastura
      • Plainview
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Plainview is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
      • Noodle
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
        • Noodle is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noodle
      • Tuxedo
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Anson
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Truby
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Truby is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truby
      • Corinth
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
        • Corinth is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corinth
      • Stith
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Funston
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • New Hope
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • New Hope is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
      • Hodges
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Hodges is located in Jones County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodges
  • Kent County
  • Nolan County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.nolan.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Nolan:   Sweetwater
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Royston   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Royston.
      • Orient
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
        • Orient is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orient
      • Tesco
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Tesco is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tesco
      • Herndon
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Herndon is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herndon
      • Sweetwater
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Avenger Village
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Avenger Village is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avenger Village
      • Grimes
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
        • Grimes is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grimes
      • Toland
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Toland is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toland
      • Shaufler
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Shaufler is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shaufler
      • Roscoe
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Wastella ‑ Historic
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Wastella is located in Nolan County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wastella
  • Scurry County
  • Stonewall County
  • Taylor 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Royston) 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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