Nearest Communities to Tres Papalotes,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Tres Papalotes, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Tres Papalotes:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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 from Tres Papalotes.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Tres Papalotes is located in Brewster County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Brewster County: Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio & Terrell.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Tres Papalotes. Of these communities, 7 are located in counties other than Brewster 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 Tres Papalotes (which is Brewster 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 Tres Papalotes
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Brewster County (where Tres Papalotes resides)
- County Website: https://www.brewstercounty.gov/
- County Seat for Brewster: Alpine
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Tres Papalotes ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Tres Papalotes.
- Lajitas Crossing
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Lajitas Crossing is located in Brewster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lajitas Crossing
- Lajitas
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Terlingua
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Study Butte - Terlingua
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Study Butte
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Study Butte is located in Brewster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Study Butte
- Terlingua Abaja
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Terlingua Abaja is located in Brewster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terlingua Abaja
- Lunas
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Lunas is located in Brewster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lunas
- Loy Place
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Loy Place is located in Brewster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loy Place
- Onion Spring
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Onion Spring is located in Brewster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onion Spring
- Sid Place
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Sid Place is located in Brewster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sid Place
- Castolon ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Castolon is located in Brewster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castolon
- Santa Elena Crossing
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Santa Elena Crossing is located in Brewster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Elena Crossing
- Presidio County
- County Website: https://www.co.presidio.tx.us/
- County Seat for Presidio: Marfa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Tres Papalotes ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Tres Papalotes.
- Papalote Seco
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Papalote Seco is located in Presidio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Seco
- Papalote Llano
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Papalote Llano is located in Presidio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Llano
- Papalote Escondido
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Papalote Escondido is located in Presidio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Escondido
- Papalote Colorado
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Papalote Colorado is located in Presidio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papalote Colorado
- Redford
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Casa Piedra ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Casa Piedra is located in Presidio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa Piedra
- Polvo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Polvo is located in Presidio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polvo
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 from Point A (ie- Tres Papalotes) 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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