Nearest Communities to Ryan,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Ryan, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Ryan:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 Ryan.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Ryan is located in Presidio County.
The following 2 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Presidio County: Brewster & Jeff Davis.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 12 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Ryan. Of these communities, 4 are located in counties other than Presidio 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 Ryan (which is Presidio 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 Ryan
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Presidio County (where Ryan resides)
- County Seat for Presidio: Marfa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Presidio County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Presidio County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Presidio County
- Nearest Communities to Ryan ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ryan.
- Quebec
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest) - Marfa
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marfa
- Marfa is located in Presidio County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,591 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marfa <4>
- Fort Holland ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fort Holland. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Holland
- Fort Holland is located in Presidio County
- Fort Holland has also been known as:
- Camp Holland
- Nopal
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast) - Tinaja
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast) - Cadelaria
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest) - Candelaria
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candelaria
- Candelaria is located in Presidio County
- Pueblo Nuevo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pueblo Nuevo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pueblo Nuevo
- Pueblo Nuevo is located in Presidio County
- Jeff Davis County
- County Seat for Jeff Davis: Fort Davis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Jeff Davis County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Jeff Davis County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Jeff Davis County
- Nearest Communities to Ryan ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Ryan.
- Valentine
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valentine
- Valentine is located in Jeff Davis County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 129 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Valentine <4>
- Bell Place Windmill
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bell Place Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Place Windmill
- Bell Place Windmill is located in Jeff Davis County
- Fort Davis
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Davis
- Fort Davis is located in Jeff Davis County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Davis <4>
- San Patricio County
- County Seat for San Patricio: Sinton
- Note: The Gulf of Mexico lies to the east
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- San Patricio County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- San Patricio County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- San Patricio County
- Nearest Communities to Ryan ...
- Paisano ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paisano
- Paisano is located in San Patricio County
- Paisano ‑ Historic
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Ryan) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ryan. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.4290, Longitude: -104.2993 In this case, the coordinates for Ryan have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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. |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |