Nearest Communities to Watkins,
Listed County-By-County
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Watkins, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Watkins:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community 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 Watkins.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Watkins is located in Terrell County.
The following 4 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Terrell County: Brewster, Crockett, Pecos & Val Verde.
Our Gazetteer shows that there are 14 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Watkins. Of these communities, 6 are located in counties other than Terrell 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 Watkins (which is Terrell 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 Watkins
For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.
- Terrell County (where Watkins resides)
- County Website: https://www.co.terrell.tx.us/
- County Seat for Terrell: Sanderson
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Watkins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Watkins.
- Malvado
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Malvado is located in Terrell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malvado
- Shaw
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Shaw is located in Terrell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shaw
- Lozier
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Lozier is located in Terrell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lozier
- Casa de Peidras
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Casa de Peidras is located in Terrell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa de Peidras
- Dryden
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Dryden Crossing
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Dryden Crossing is located in Terrell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dryden Crossing
- Mofeta
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Mofeta is located in Terrell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mofeta
- Sanderson
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Brewster County
- County Website: https://www.brewstercounty.gov/
- County Seat for Brewster: Alpine
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Watkins ...
- San Francisco
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- San Francisco is located in Brewster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Francisco
- Val Verde County
- County Website: https://www.valverdecounty.texas.gov/
- County Seat for Val Verde: Del Rio
- Genealogy Websites ...
- Nearest Communities to Watkins ...
- These communities are listed by their distance from Watkins.
- Pumpville ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Pumpville is located in Val Verde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumpville
- Osman
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Osman is located in Val Verde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osman
- Hackberry Crossing
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Hackberry Crossing is located in Val Verde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackberry Crossing
- Langtry
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Pandale ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Pandale is located in Val Verde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pandale
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Watkins) 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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