Nearest Communities to Valentine,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Valentine, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Valentine:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small town in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Valentine.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Valentine is located in Jeff Davis County.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jeff Davis County: Brewster, Culberson, Hudspeth, Pecos & Presidio.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 7 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Valentine. Of these communities, 5 are located in counties other than Jeff Davis 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 Valentine (which is Jeff Davis 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 Valentine
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Jeff Davis County (where Valentine resides)
- County Seat for Jeff Davis: Fort Davis
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Jeff Davis County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Jeff Davis County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Jeff Davis County
- Nearest Communities to Valentine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Valentine.
- Bell Place Windmill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bell Place Windmill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Place Windmill
- Bell Place Windmill is located in Jeff Davis County
- Chispa ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Culberson County
- County Seat for Culberson: Van Horn
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Culberson County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Culberson County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Culberson County
- Nearest Communities to Valentine ...
- Lobo ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lobo
- Lobo is located in Culberson County
- Lobo ‑ Historic
- Presidio County
- County Seat for Presidio: Marfa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- From Cyndi's List:
- State of Texas
- Presidio County
- From Family Search:
- State of Texas
- Presidio County
- From Genealogy Trails:
- State of Texas
- Presidio County
- Nearest Communities to Valentine ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Valentine.
- Quebec
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast) - Fort Holland ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fort Holland. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Holland
- Fort Holland is located in Presidio County
- Fort Holland has also been known as:
- Camp Holland
- Ryan
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast) - Porvenir ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Valentine) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Valentine. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.5886, Longitude: -104.4953 |
| <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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |