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Nearest Communities to Sparenberg,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance from Sparenberg.<1>

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

Sparenberg is located in Dawson County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dawson County: Andrews, Borden, Gaines, Howard, Lynn, Martin & Terry.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 40 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sparenberg. Of these communities, 19 are located in counties other than Dawson 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 Sparenberg (which is Dawson 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 Sparenberg

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

  • Dawson County   (where Sparenberg resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.dawson.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Dawson:   Lamesa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sparenberg   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sparenberg.
      • Fivemile
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Fivemile is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile
      • Tenmile
        (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
        • Tenmile is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile
      • Klondike
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
        • Klondike is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klondike
      • Midway
        (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Midway is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
      • Ackerly
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Key
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
        • Key is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key
      • Los Ybanez
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
        • Los Ybanez is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Los Ybanez
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
      • Patricia
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
        • Patricia is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patricia
      • Friendship
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Friendship is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
      • Lamesa
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Union
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
        • Union is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
      • Arvana
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
        • Arvana is located in Dawson County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arvana
      • Continue List   (9 more) ...
        • Hancock
          (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
          • Hancock is located in Dawson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
        • Mungerville
          (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
          • Mungerville is located in Dawson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mungerville
        • Hindman
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
          • Hindman is located in Dawson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hindman
        • Sand
          (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
          • Sand is located in Dawson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand
        • Punkin Center
          (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
          • Punkin Center is located in Dawson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Punkin Center
        • Grandview
          (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
          • Grandview is located in Dawson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandview
        • O'Donnell
          (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
          • O'Donnell is located in Dawson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Donnell
          • Population from the 2020 Census: 847 people
        • Pride
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
          • Pride is located in Dawson County
          • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pride
        • Welch
          (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Andrews County
  • Borden County
  • Gaines County
  • Howard County
  • Lynn County
  • Martin County
    • County Website:   http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Martin:   Stanton
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sparenberg   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sparenberg.
      • Flower Grove
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
        • Flower Grove is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Grove
      • Three Leagues
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Three Leagues is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Leagues
      • Brown
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Brown is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
      • Merrick
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
        • Merrick is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrick
      • Grady
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
        • Grady is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
      • Lenorah
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Tarzan
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Courtney
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Courtney is located in Martin County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Courtney

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sparenberg) 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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