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Nearest Communities to Sherlock,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 starting from Sherlock.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.

Sherlock is located in Lipscomb County.

The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lipscomb County: Beaver (OK), Ellis (OK), Hemphill, Ochiltree & Roberts.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 33 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sherlock. Of these communities, 21 are located in counties other than Lipscomb 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 Sherlock (which is Lipscomb 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 Sherlock

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

  • Lipscomb County   (where Sherlock resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.lipscomb.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Lipscomb:   Lipscomb
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sherlock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sherlock.
      • Follett
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Darrouzett
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Timms City ‑ Historic
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Timms City is located in Lipscomb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timms City
      • Magoun
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Magoun is located in Lipscomb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magoun
      • Gaylord
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
        • Gaylord is located in Lipscomb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaylord
      • Lipscomb
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Twin Grove
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Twin Grove is located in Lipscomb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Grove
      • Booker
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Barton Corners
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Barton Corners is located in Lipscomb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton Corners
      • Locust Grove
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
        • Locust Grove is located in Lipscomb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove
      • Higgins
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Coburn
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Coburn is located in Lipscomb County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coburn
  • Hemphill County
  • Ochiltree County
  • Beaver County
    • County Website:   https://beaver.okcounties.org/
    • County Seat for Beaver:   Beaver (OK)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sherlock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sherlock.
      • Logan
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Logan is located in Beaver County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
      • Sophia
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Sophia is located in Beaver County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sophia
      • Slapout
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Slapout is located in Beaver County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slapout
      • Clear Lake
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Clear Lake is located in Beaver County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Lake
      • Elmwood
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
        • Elmwood is located in Beaver County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmwood
      • Balko
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Gate
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
        • Gate is located in Beaver County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gate
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 85 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gate <3>
      • Knowles
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Beaver
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Beaver is located in Beaver County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,364 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Beaver <3>
  • Ellis County
    • County Seat for Ellis:   Arnett (OK)
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sherlock   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sherlock.
      • Catesby
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Catesby is located in Ellis County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catesby
      • Touzalin
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Touzalin is located in Ellis County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Touzalin
      • Chaney
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Chaney is located in Ellis County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaney
      • Shattuck
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Goodwin
        (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
        • Goodwin is located in Ellis County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwin
      • Gage
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
        • Gage is located in Ellis County (OK)
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gage
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 406 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gage <3>
  • Harper County

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- Sherlock) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.