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Nearest Communities to Vanderpool,
Listed County-By-County

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

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.

Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance.<1>

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

Vanderpool is located in Bandera County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Bandera County: Bexar, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, Real & Uvalde.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 31 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Vanderpool. Of these communities, 26 are located in counties other than Bandera 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 Vanderpool (which is Bandera 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 Vanderpool

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

  • Bandera County   (where Vanderpool resides)
  • Edwards County
  • Kerr County
  • Medina County
  • Real County
  • Uvalde County
    • County Website:   https://www.uvaldecounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Uvalde:   Uvalde
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Vanderpool   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Vanderpool.
      • Utopia
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Waresville
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
        • Waresville is located in Uvalde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waresville
      • Happy Hollow
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Happy Hollow is located in Uvalde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Hollow
      • Magers Crossing
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
        • Magers Crossing is located in Uvalde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magers Crossing
      • Third Crossing
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Third Crossing is located in Uvalde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Third Crossing
      • Long Crossing
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Long Crossing is located in Uvalde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Crossing
      • Second Crossing
        (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
        • Second Crossing is located in Uvalde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Second Crossing
      • Concan
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • First Crossing
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • First Crossing is located in Uvalde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for First Crossing
      • Reagan Wells
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Reagan Wells is located in Uvalde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reagan Wells
      • Trio
        (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
        • Trio is located in Uvalde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trio
      • Sabinal
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Montell
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
        • Montell is located in Uvalde County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montell

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- Vanderpool) 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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