Nearest Communities to Sand,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Sand, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Sand:
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 starting from Sand.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Sand is located in Dawson County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dawson County: Andrews, Borden, Gaines, Howard, Lynn, Martin & Terry.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 42 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sand. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Dawson 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 Sand (which is Dawson 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 Sand
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Dawson County (where Sand resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.dawson.tx.us/
- County Seat for Dawson: Lamesa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sand ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand.
- Union
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Union is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Mungerville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Mungerville is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mungerville
- Friendship
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Friendship is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
- Lamesa
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Lamesa is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamesa
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,131 people
- Lamesa has also been known as:
- La Mesa
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lamesa <3>
- Punkin Center
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Punkin Center is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Punkin Center
- Patricia
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Patricia is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patricia
- Los Ybanez
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Los Ybanez is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Ybanez
- Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
- Welch
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Arvana
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Arvana is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arvana
- Klondike
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Klondike is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klondike
- Tenmile
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Tenmile is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile
- Fivemile
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Fivemile is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile
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- Pride
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Pride is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pride
- Grandview
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Grandview is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandview
- Hancock
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Hancock is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Sparenberg
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Sparenberg is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparenberg
- Key
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Key is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key
- Hindman
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hindman is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hindman
- Midway
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Midway is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- O'Donnell
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- O'Donnell is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Donnell
- Population from the 2020 Census: 847 people
- Ackerly
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Andrews County
- County Website: https://www.co.andrews.tx.us/
- County Seat for Andrews: Andrews
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sand ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand.
- Sixteen Corner Windmill
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Florey
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Florey is located in Andrews County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florey
- Waldon Place Windmill
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Gaines County
- County Website: https://www.co.gaines.tx.us/
- County Seat for Gaines: Seminole
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sand ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand.
- White City ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- White City is located in Gaines County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
- Ashmore
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Ashmore is located in Gaines County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashmore
- Loop
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Fairview
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Fairview is located in Gaines County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Seminole
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Seagraves
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Lynn County
- County Website: https://www.co.lynn.tx.us/
- County Seat for Lynn: Tahoka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sand ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand.
- New Moore
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- New Moore is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Moore
- Wells
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Wells is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells
- Martin County
- County Website: http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
- County Seat for Martin: Stanton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sand ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand.
- Three Leagues
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Three Leagues is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Leagues
- Flower Grove
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Flower Grove is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Grove
- Merrick
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Merrick is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrick
- Tarzan
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Grady
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Grady is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
- Terry County
- County Website: https://www.co.terry.tx.us/
- County Seat for Terry: Brownfield
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Sand ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Sand.
- Adair
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Adair is located in Terry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adair
- Union
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Union is located in Terry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Foster
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Foster is located in Terry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster
- Wellman
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Lahey
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Lahey is located in Terry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lahey
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Sand) 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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