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Nearest Communities to Spade,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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 Spade.<1>

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

Spade is located in Mitchell County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mitchell County: Borden, Coke, Fisher, Howard, Nolan, Scurry & Sterling.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 37 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Spade. Of these communities, 26 are located in counties other than Mitchell 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 Spade (which is Mitchell 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 Spade

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

  • Mitchell County   (where Spade resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.mitchell.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Mitchell:   Colorado City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Spade   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Spade.
      • Westbrook
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Lowe
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
        • Lowe is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowe
      • Pecan Crossing
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Pecan Crossing is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecan Crossing
      • Iatan
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Colorado City
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Hyman
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Hyman is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyman
      • Rodet
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
        • Rodet is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodet
      • Buford
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Cuthbert ‑ Historic
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Cuthbert is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuthbert
      • Loraine
        (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Valley View
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Valley View is located in Mitchell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley View
  • Coke County
  • Howard County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.howard.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Howard:   Big Spring
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Spade   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Spade.
      • Otis Chalk ‑ Historic
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Otis Chalk is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otis Chalk
      • Coahoma
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Vincent
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
        • Vincent is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
      • Ross City ‑ Historic
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Ross City is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross City
      • Sand Springs
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
        • Sand Springs is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
      • Midway
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Midway is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Forsan
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Ziler
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
        • Ziler is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ziler
      • Big Spring
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • South Haven
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • South Haven is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
      • Webb Village
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
        • Webb Village is located in Howard County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
  • Nolan County
  • Scurry County
  • Sterling 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- Spade) 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.