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Nearest Communities to Wayside,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.<1>

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

Wayside is located in Armstrong County.

The following 7 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Armstrong County: Briscoe, Carson, Donley, Gray, Potter, Randall & Swisher.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 26 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wayside. Of these communities, 20 are located in counties other than Armstrong 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 Wayside (which is Armstrong 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 Wayside

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

  • Armstrong County   (where Wayside resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.armstrong.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Armstrong:   Claude
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wayside   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wayside.
      • Paloduro
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Paloduro is located in Armstrong County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paloduro
      • Fairview
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
        • Fairview is located in Armstrong County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Claude
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Claude is located in Armstrong County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claude
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,200 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Claude <3>
      • Malden
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
        • Malden is located in Armstrong County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malden
      • Washburn
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
        • Washburn is located in Armstrong County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washburn
      • Goodnight
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Briscoe County
  • Carson County
  • Potter County
  • Randall County
    • County Website:   https://www.randallcounty.gov/
    • County Seat for Randall:   Canyon
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wayside   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wayside.
      • Ogg
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
        • Ogg is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogg
      • Lake Tanglewood
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
        • Lake Tanglewood is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Tanglewood
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 898 people
      • Cleta
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Cleta is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleta
      • Palisades
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Palisades is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palisades
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 367 people
      • Timbercreek Canyon
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
        • Timbercreek Canyon is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timbercreek Canyon
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 479 people
      • Canyon
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Zita
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Zita is located in Randall County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zita
  • Swisher County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.swisher.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Swisher:   Tulia
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wayside   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wayside.
      • Vigo Park
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Happy
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Kaffir
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Kaffir is located in Swisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaffir
      • Tulia
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
        • Tulia is located in Swisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulia
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,606 people
        • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tulia <3>
      • Eunice
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
        • Eunice is located in Swisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eunice
      • Lakeview
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
        • Lakeview is located in Swisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
      • Claytonville
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Claytonville is located in Swisher County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claytonville

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wayside) 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.