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Nearest Communities to Wesco,
Listed County-By-County

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

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northwest 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 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 west 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.

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

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

Wesco is located in Gray County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gray County: Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Roberts & Wheeler.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 39 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Wesco. Of these communities, 26 are located in counties other than Gray 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 Wesco (which is Gray 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 Wesco

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

  • Gray County   (where Wesco resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.gray.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Gray:   Pampa
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wesco   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wesco.
      • Lefors
        (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Heaton
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
        • Heaton is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
      • Bowers City
        (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
        • Bowers City is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowers City
      • Denworth
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
        • Denworth is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denworth
      • Back
        (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Back is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Back
      • Laketon
        (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Laketon is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laketon
      • Hoover
        (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
        • Hoover is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover
      • Mesilla Park
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Mesilla Park is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesilla Park
      • Pampa
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Alanreed
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • McLean
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Kingsmill Camp
        (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
        • Kingsmill Camp is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsmill Camp
      • Kingsmill ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
        • Kingsmill is located in Gray County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsmill
  • Carson County
  • Donley County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.donley.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Donley:   Clarendon
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wesco   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wesco.
      • Rockledge
        (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
        • Rockledge is located in Donley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockledge
      • Jericho
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
        • Jericho is located in Donley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jericho
      • Boydston
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
        • Boydston is located in Donley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boydston
      • Howardwick
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
        • Howardwick is located in Donley County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howardwick
        • Population from the 2020 Census: 398 people
  • Hemphill County
  • Roberts County
  • Wheeler County
    • County Website:   https://www.wheelercounty.texas.gov/
    • County Seat for Wheeler:   Wheeler
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Wesco   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Wesco.
      • Bellco
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
        • Bellco is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellco
      • Kellerville
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
        • Kellerville is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellerville
      • Mobeetie
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • New Mobeetie
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
        • New Mobeetie is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Mobeetie
      • Pakan
        (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Pakan is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pakan
      • Magic City
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
        • Magic City is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magic City
      • Ramsdell
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Ramsdell is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramsdell
      • Wheeler
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Lela
        (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Lela is located in Wheeler County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lela
      • Briscoe
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Twitty
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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- Wesco) 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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