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Nearest Communities to Sunset,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 starting from Sunset.<1>

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

Sunset is located in Knox County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Knox County: Baylor, Foard, Haskell, King, Stonewall & Throckmorton.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 34 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Sunset. Of these communities, 24 are located in counties other than Knox 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 Sunset (which is Knox 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 Sunset

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

  • Knox County   (where Sunset resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.knoxcountytexas.org/
    • County Seat for Knox:   Benjamin
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sunset   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sunset.
      • Munday
        (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Rhineland
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Rhineland is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhineland
      • Knox City
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Union Grove
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
        • Union Grove is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Grove
      • Benjamin
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Goree
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Hefner
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Hefner is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hefner
      • Vera
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Vera is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vera
      • Gilliland
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
        • Gilliland is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilliland
      • Truscott
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Truscott is located in Knox County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truscott
  • Baylor County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.baylor.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Baylor:   Seymour
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sunset   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sunset.
      • Bomarton
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
        • Bomarton is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomarton
      • Red Springs
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Red Springs is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Springs
      • Seymour
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Ogden
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
        • Ogden is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogden
  • Foard County
  • Haskell County
    • County Website:   https://www.haskellcountytx.gov/
    • County Seat for Haskell:   Haskell
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Sunset   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Sunset.
      • Weinert
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • O'Brien
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Rochester
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Josselet
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
        • Josselet is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Josselet
      • Mattson
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
        • Mattson is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattson
      • Jud ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Jud is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jud
      • Pinkerton
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Pinkerton is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinkerton
      • Haskell
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Irby
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Irby is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irby
      • Rule
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Rule is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rule
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 611 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rule <3>
      • Paint Creek
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
        • Paint Creek is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paint Creek
      • Scott Crossing
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
        • Scott Crossing is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Crossing
      • Sagerton
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Plainview
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
        • Plainview is located in Haskell County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
  • Stonewall County
  • Throckmorton County

Footnotes ...

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