Nearest Communities to Vealmoor,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Vealmoor, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Vealmoor:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Keep in mind that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Vealmoor.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Vealmoor is located in Howard County.
The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Howard County: Borden, Dawson, Glasscock, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Scurry & Sterling.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 44 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Vealmoor. Of these communities, 29 are located in counties other than Howard 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 Vealmoor (which is Howard 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 Vealmoor
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Howard County (where Vealmoor resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.howard.tx.us/
- County Seat for Howard: Big Spring
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vealmoor ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vealmoor.
- Luther
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Luther is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
- Knott
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Fairview
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Fairview is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Ziler
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Ziler is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ziler
- Vincent
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Vincent is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
- Big Spring
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Midway
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Midway is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Sand Springs
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Sand Springs is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
- Webb Village
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Webb Village is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Village
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Coahoma
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Morita
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Morita is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morita
- South Haven
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- South Haven is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
- Elbow
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Elbow is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbow
- Lomax
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Lomax is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lomax
- Forsan
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Borden County
- County Website: https://www.co.borden.tx.us/
- County Seat for Borden: Gail
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vealmoor ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vealmoor.
- Gail
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Mesquite ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Mesquite is located in Borden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesquite
- Plains
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Plains is located in Borden County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plains
- Dawson County
- County Website: https://www.co.dawson.tx.us/
- County Seat for Dawson: Lamesa
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vealmoor ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vealmoor.
- Ackerly
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Midway
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Midway is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Sparenberg
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Key
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Key is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Key
- Fivemile
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Fivemile is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile
- Tenmile
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Tenmile is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenmile
- Klondike
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Klondike is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klondike
- Los Ybanez
(24 miles [38.6 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
- Hancock
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Hancock is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Lamesa
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Patricia
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Patricia is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patricia
- Friendship
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Friendship is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
- Arvana
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Arvana is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arvana
- Hindman
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Hindman is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hindman
- Union
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Union is located in Dawson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Martin County
- County Website: http://www.co.martin.tx.us/
- County Seat for Martin: Stanton
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vealmoor ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vealmoor.
- Brown
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Brown is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
- Flower Grove
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Flower Grove is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Grove
- Merrick
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Merrick is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrick
- Lenorah
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Three Leagues
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Three Leagues is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Leagues
- Grady
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Grady is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
- Tarzan
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Stanton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Mitchell County
- Scurry County
- County Website: https://www.co.scurry.tx.us/
- County Seat for Scurry: Snyder
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vealmoor ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vealmoor.
- Knapp
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Knapp is located in Scurry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knapp
- Arah
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Arah is located in Scurry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arah
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- Vealmoor) 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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