Nearest Communities to Shafter Lake,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Shafter Lake, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Shafter Lake:
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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Shafter Lake.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Shafter Lake is historic,<2> it would have been located within present day Andrews County.
The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Andrews County: Lea (NM), Ector, Gaines, Martin, Midland & Winkler.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 18 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Shafter Lake. Of these communities, 11 are located in counties other than Andrews County.
We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<3> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.
After starting with the home county for Shafter Lake (which is Andrews 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 Shafter Lake
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Andrews County (where Shafter Lake resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.andrews.tx.us/
- County Seat for Andrews: Andrews
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Shafter Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Shafter Lake.
- Florey
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Florey is also located in Andrews County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florey
- Frankel City ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Frankel City was located in Andrews County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frankel City
- Andrews
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Waldon Place Windmill
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Waldon Place Windmill is also located in Andrews County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldon Place Windmill
- Old Place Windmills
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Old Place Windmills is also located in Andrews County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Place Windmills
- Coyote Corner
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Coyote Corner is also located in Andrews County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Corner
- Sixteen Corner Windmill
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Ector County
- County Website: https://www.co.ector.tx.us/
- County Seat for Ector: Odessa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Shafter Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Shafter Lake.
- Goldsmith
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- North Cowden
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- North Cowden is located in Ector County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Cowden
- Turnbaugh Corner
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Turnbaugh Corner is located in Ector County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnbaugh Corner
- Scharbauer City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Scharbauer City is located in Ector County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scharbauer City
- Gaines County
- County Website: https://www.co.gaines.tx.us/
- County Seat for Gaines: Seminole
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Shafter Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Shafter Lake.
- Fairview
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Fairview is located in Gaines County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Seminole
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Paynes Corner
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Paynes Corner is located in Gaines County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paynes Corner
- Lea County
- County Website: https://www.leacounty.net/
- County Seat for Lea: Lovington (NM)
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Shafter Lake ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Shafter Lake.
- Jones City
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Jones City is located in Lea County (NM)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
- Eunice
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Maypens
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Maypens is located in Lea County (NM)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maypens
- Nadine
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Nadine is located in Lea County (NM)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nadine
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- Shafter Lake) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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 significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Shafter Lake, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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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