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Nearest Communities to Westover,
Listed County-By-County

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

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

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

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

Westover is located in Baylor County.

The following 8 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Baylor County: Archer, Foard, Haskell, Knox, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger & Young.

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 34 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Westover. Of these communities, 26 are located in counties other than Baylor 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 Westover (which is Baylor 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 Westover

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

  • Baylor County   (where Westover resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.co.baylor.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Baylor:   Seymour
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Westover   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Westover.
      • Round Timber ‑ Historic
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Round Timber is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Timber
      • Lively
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
        • Lively is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lively
      • Ogden
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Ogden is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogden
      • Fulda
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
        • Fulda is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fulda
      • Mabelle
        (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
        • Mabelle is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mabelle
      • Seymour
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Bomarton
        (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
        • Bomarton is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bomarton
      • Red Springs
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
        • Red Springs is located in Baylor County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Springs
  • Archer County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.archer.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Archer:   Archer City
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Westover   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Westover.
      • Megargel
        (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Black Flat
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
        • Black Flat is located in Archer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Flat
      • Dundee
        (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
        • Dundee is located in Archer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundee
      • Anarene ‑ Historic
        (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
        • Anarene is located in Archer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anarene
      • Archer City
        (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Mankins
        (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
        • Mankins is located in Archer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mankins
      • Dads Corner
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Dads Corner is located in Archer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dads Corner
      • Holliday
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Hartex
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
        • Hartex is located in Archer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartex
      • Luke Wilson
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
        • Luke Wilson is located in Archer County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luke Wilson
  • Knox County
  • Throckmorton County
  • Wichita County
  • Young County
    • County Website:   https://www.co.young.tx.us/
    • County Seat for Young:   Graham
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Westover   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Westover.
      • Padgett
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
        • Padgett is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Padgett
      • Olney
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Proffitt Crossing
        (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
        • Proffitt Crossing is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proffitt Crossing
      • Proffitt
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
        • Proffitt is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proffitt
      • True
        (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
        • True is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for True
      • Jean
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
        • Jean is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jean
      • Newcastle
        (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Farmer
        (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
        • Farmer is located in Young County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmer

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- Westover) 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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