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Nearest Communities to Smith Place,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.<1>

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

Smith Place is located in Pecos County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pecos County: Brewster, Crane, Jeff Davis, Reeves, Terrell & Ward.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 15 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Smith Place. Of these communities, 9 are located in counties other than Pecos 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 Smith Place (which is Pecos 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 Smith Place

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

  • Pecos County   (where Smith Place resides)
    • County Website:   www.co.pecos.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Pecos:   Fort Stockton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Smith Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Smith Place.
      • Chancellor
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chancellor have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chancellor
        • Chancellor is located in Pecos County
      • Belding
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Belding have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belding
        • Belding is located in Pecos County
      • Fort Stockton
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Stockton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Stockton
        • Fort Stockton is located in Pecos County
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,373 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Stockton <4>
      • Bodieville
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bodieville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodieville
        • Bodieville is located in Pecos County
        • Bodieville has also been known as:
        • Bodieville Colonia
      • Little Mexico
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Mexico have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Mexico
        • Little Mexico is located in Pecos County
        • Little Mexico has also been known as:
        • Little Mexico Colonia
      • Guild
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Guild have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guild
        • Guild is located in Pecos County
  • Brewster County
    • County Seat for Brewster:   Alpine
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Smith Place   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Smith Place.
      • Hovey ‑ Historic
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hovey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hovey
        • Hovey is located in Brewster County
      • Old Oscar Nance Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Oscar Nance Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Oscar Nance Place
        • Old Oscar Nance Place is located in Brewster County
      • Old Parker Place
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Parker Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Parker Place
        • Old Parker Place is located in Brewster County
      • Beatty Place
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beatty Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty Place
        • Beatty Place is located in Brewster County
      • Edwards Place
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Edwards Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards Place
        • Edwards Place is located in Brewster County
      • Youngblood Place
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Youngblood Place have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngblood Place
        • Youngblood Place is located in Brewster County
      • Titley
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Titley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Titley
        • Titley is located in Brewster County
  • Jeff Davis County
  • Reeves County
    • County Seat for Reeves:   Pecos
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Smith Place   ...
      • Cuatro Caminos
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cuatro Caminos have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuatro Caminos
        • Cuatro Caminos is located in Reeves County

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- Smith Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Smith Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.7554, Longitude: -103.2082       In this case, the coordinates for Smith Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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