Nearest Communities to San Francisco,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to San Francisco, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for San Francisco:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from San Francisco.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
San Francisco is located in Brewster County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Brewster County: Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio & Terrell.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of San Francisco. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Brewster 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 San Francisco (which is Brewster 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 San Francisco
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Brewster County (where San Francisco resides)
- County Seat for Brewster: Alpine
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Brewster County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Brewster County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Brewster County
- Nearest Communities to San Francisco ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from San Francisco.
- Stuart Place
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stuart Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stuart Place
- Stuart Place is located in Brewster County
- Millers
(18 miles [29 km] to the west) - Rosenfeld
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest) - Maxon ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxon
- Maxon is located in Brewster County
- Maxon has also been known as:
- Maxon Springs
- Tinaja ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Pecos County
- County Website: www.co.pecos.tx.us/
- County Seat for Pecos: Fort Stockton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Pecos County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Pecos County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Pecos County
- Nearest Communities to San Francisco ...
- Longfellow ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Longfellow have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longfellow
- Longfellow is located in Pecos County
- Longfellow ‑ Historic
- Terrell County
- County Seat for Terrell: Sanderson
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Terrell County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Terrell County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Terrell County
- Nearest Communities to San Francisco ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from San Francisco.
- Mofeta
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast) - Dryden Crossing
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dryden Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryden Crossing
- Dryden Crossing is located in Terrell County
- Sanderson
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanderson
- Sanderson is located in Terrell County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sanderson <4>
- Emerson
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest) - Dryden
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryden
- Dryden is located in Terrell County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dryden <4>
- Shaw
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east) - Watkins
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east) - Casa de Peidras
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Casa de Peidras have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa de Peidras
- Casa de Peidras is located in Terrell County
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- San Francisco) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in San Francisco. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.8935, Longitude: -102.4040 In this case, the coordinates for San Francisco 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. |