Nearest Communities to Skeen,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Skeen, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Skeen:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 from Skeen.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Skeen is located in Lynn County.
The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lynn County: Borden, Crosby, Dawson, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock & Terry.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 48 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Skeen. Of these communities, 36 are located in counties other than Lynn 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 Skeen (which is Lynn 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 Skeen
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Lynn County (where Skeen resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.lynn.tx.us/
- County Seat for Lynn: Tahoka
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skeen ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Skeen.
- Tahoka
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Draw
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Draw is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Draw
- Wells
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Wells is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells
- Grassland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Grassland is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassland
- New Lynn ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- New Lynn is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Lynn
- New Moore
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- New Moore is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Moore
- West Point
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- West Point is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Point
- Wayside ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Wayside is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayside
- Wilson
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Petty
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Petty is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petty
- New Home
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Lakeview
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Lakeview is located in Lynn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
- Borden County
- County Website: https://www.co.borden.tx.us/
- County Seat for Borden: Gail
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skeen ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Skeen.
- Plains
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Plains is located in Borden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plains
- Mesquite ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Mesquite is located in Borden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesquite
- Gail
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Dawson County
- County Website: https://www.co.dawson.tx.us/
- County Seat for Dawson: Lamesa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skeen ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Skeen.
- O'Donnell
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- O'Donnell is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Donnell
- Population from the 2020 Census: 847 people
- Hindman
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Hindman is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hindman
- Grandview
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Grandview is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandview
- Hancock
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Hancock is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Pride
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Pride is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pride
- Arvana
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Arvana is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arvana
- Punkin Center
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Punkin Center is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Punkin Center
- Welch
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Key
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Key is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key
- Los Ybanez
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Los Ybanez is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Ybanez
- Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
- Lamesa
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- 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>
- Midway
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Midway is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Mungerville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Mungerville is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mungerville
- Fivemile
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Fivemile is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile
- Gaines County
- County Website: https://www.co.gaines.tx.us/
- County Seat for Gaines: Seminole
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skeen ...
- Ashmore
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Ashmore is located in Gaines County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashmore
- Garza County
- County Website: https://www.garzacounty.net/
- County Seat for Garza: Post
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skeen ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Skeen.
- Graham
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Graham is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
- Close City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Close City is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Close City
- Close City has also been known as:
- Ragtown
- Hackberry
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Hackberry is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackberry
- Pleasant Valley
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Pleasant Valley is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
- Buenos
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Buenos is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buenos
- Southland
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Southland is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southland
- Post
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Augustus
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Augustus is located in Garza County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Augustus
- Lubbock County
- County Website: https://www.lubbockcounty.gov/
- County Seat for Lubbock: Lubbock
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skeen ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Skeen.
- Union
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Union is located in Lubbock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Slide
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Slide is located in Lubbock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slide
- Slaton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Woodrow
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Woodrow is located in Lubbock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodrow
- Posey
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Posey is located in Lubbock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Posey
- Terry County
- County Website: https://www.co.terry.tx.us/
- County Seat for Terry: Brownfield
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Skeen ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Skeen.
- Union
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Union is located in Terry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Adair
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Adair is located in Terry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adair
- Brownfield
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Foster
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Foster is located in Terry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster
- Meadow
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Skeen) 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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