Nearest Communities to Vega,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Vega, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Vega:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small city in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 north 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 Vega.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Vega is located in Oldham County and is the County Seat.
The following 5 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Oldham County: Quay (NM), Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore & Potter.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 32 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Vega. Of these communities, 18 are located in counties other than Oldham 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 Vega (which is Oldham 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 Vega
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Oldham County (where Vega resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.oldham.tx.us/
- County Seat for Oldham: Vega
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vega ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vega.
- Everett
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Everett is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Everett
- Landergin
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Landergin is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landergin
- Wildorado
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Adrian
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Wimberly Place
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Wimberly Place is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wimberly Place
- Gruhlkey
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Gruhlkey is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gruhlkey
- Hollicott Crossing
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Hollicott Crossing is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollicott Crossing
- Tascosa ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Tascosa is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tascosa
- Boys' Ranch
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Old Farm Crossing
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Old Farm Crossing is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Farm Crossing
- Strip Crossing
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Strip Crossing is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strip Crossing
- Partwood Crossing
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Partwood Crossing is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Partwood Crossing
- Boise ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Boise is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boise
- Murdo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Murdo is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murdo
- Deaf Smith County
- County Website: https://www.co.deaf-smith.tx.us/
- County Seat for Deaf Smith: Hereford
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vega ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vega.
- Ford
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Ford is located in Deaf Smith County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ford
- Milo Center
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Milo Center is located in Deaf Smith County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo Center
- Simms
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Simms is located in Deaf Smith County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simms
- La Plata ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Dawn
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Joel
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Joel is located in Deaf Smith County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joel
- Hereford
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Westway
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Westway is located in Deaf Smith County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westway
- Walcott
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Walcott is located in Deaf Smith County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walcott
- Hartley County
- Potter County
- County Website: https://www.co.potter.tx.us/
- County Seat for Potter: Amarillo
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Vega ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Vega.
- Bushland
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Ady
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Ady is located in Potter County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ady
- Boden
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Boden is located in Potter County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boden
- Gentry
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Gentry is located in Potter County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gentry
- Bishop Hills
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Bishop Hills is located in Potter County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Hills
- Population from the 2020 Census: 173 people
- Cliffside
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Cliffside is located in Potter County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cliffside
- Soncy
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Randall County
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Vega) 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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