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Nearest Communities to Soldiers Mound,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast 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 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 east 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 Soldiers Mound.<1>

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

Although our information shows that the community of Soldiers Mound<2> is historic,<3> it would have been located within present day Dickens County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dickens County: Cottle, Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Kent, King, Motley & Stonewall.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 29 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Soldiers Mound. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Dickens County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<4> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Soldiers Mound (which is Dickens 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 Soldiers Mound

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

  • Dickens County   (where Soldiers Mound resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.dickens.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Dickens:   Dickens
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Soldiers Mound   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Soldiers Mound.
      • Spur
        (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Spur is located in Dickens County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spur
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,167 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spur <5>
      • Steele Hill
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
        • Steele Hill is located in Dickens County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steele Hill
      • Dickens
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Gilpin
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Gilpin is located in Dickens County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilpin
      • Croton
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Croton is located in Dickens County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croton
      • Red Mud
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
        • Red Mud is located in Dickens County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Mud
      • Elton
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
        • Elton is located in Dickens County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
      • Afton
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • East Afton
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • East Afton is located in Dickens County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Afton
      • Glenn
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
        • Glenn is located in Dickens County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenn
      • McAdoo
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Crosby County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.crosby.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Crosby:   Crosbyton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Soldiers Mound   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Soldiers Mound.
      • Broadway
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
        • Broadway is located in Crosby County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadway
      • Kalgary
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Kalgary is located in Crosby County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kalgary
      • Wake
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Wake is located in Crosby County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wake
      • Crosbyton
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Mount Blanco ‑ Historic
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Mount Blanco is located in Crosby County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Blanco
      • Canyon Valley ‑ Historic
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Canyon Valley is located in Crosby County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Valley
      • Owens
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Owens is located in Crosby County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owens
  • Garza County
  • Kent County
  • King County
  • Motley County

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Soldiers Mound) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Soldiers Mound may originally have been Soldier's Mound. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Soldiers Mound might be written as Soldier Mound. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Soldiers Mound.
<3>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 Soldiers Mound, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.