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Nearest Communities to Seadrift,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city 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.

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.

Seadrift is located in Calhoun County.

The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Calhoun County: Jackson, Matagorda, Refugio & Victoria.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 40 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Seadrift. Of these communities, 23 are located in counties other than Calhoun 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 Seadrift (which is Calhoun 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 Seadrift

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

  • Calhoun County   (where Seadrift resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.calhouncotx.org/
    • County Seat for Calhoun:   Port Lavaca
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Seadrift   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Seadrift.
      • Long Mott
        (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • North Seadrift
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
        • North Seadrift is located in Calhoun County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Seadrift
      • Green Lake
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Green Lake is located in Calhoun County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Lake
      • Clark Station
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Clark Station is located in Calhoun County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark Station
      • Alamo Beach
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Alamo Beach is located in Calhoun County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo Beach
      • Heyser
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Heyser is located in Calhoun County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heyser
      • Port Lavaca
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Magnolia Beach
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
        • Magnolia Beach is located in Calhoun County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia Beach
      • Kamey
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Indianola
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Indianola is located in Calhoun County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indianola
      • Sixmile
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Sixmile is located in Calhoun County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sixmile
      • Port O'Connor
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Continue List   (5 more) ...
        • Point Comfort
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Olivia
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
          • Olivia is located in Calhoun County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olivia
        • Port Alto
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Schicke Point
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
          • Schicke Point is located in Calhoun County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schicke Point
        • El Campo Club Community
          (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Aransas County
    • County Website:   https://www.aransascountytx.gov/
    • County Seat for Aransas:   Rockport
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Seadrift   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Seadrift.
      • Spanish Village
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Spanish Village is located in Aransas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Village
      • Holiday Beach
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Holiday Beach is located in Aransas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Beach
      • Lamar
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Lamar is located in Aransas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamar
      • Copano Village
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Copano Village is located in Aransas County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copano Village
  • Jackson County
  • Refugio County
  • Victoria County
    • County Website:   https://www.vctx.org/
    • County Seat for Victoria:   Victoria
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Seadrift   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Seadrift.
      • Bloomington
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Placedo
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • McFaddin
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Carr
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
        • Carr is located in Victoria County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carr
      • Dacosta
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Dernal
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Dernal is located in Victoria County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dernal
      • Guadalupe
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Guadalupe is located in Victoria County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guadalupe
      • Wood Hi
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
        • Wood Hi is located in Victoria County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood Hi
      • Hughes ‑ Historic
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Hughes is located in Victoria County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hughes

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- Seadrift) 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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